Abstract
We are currently witnessing a global pandemic, caused by a virus that originated in a Chinese city and then spread throughout...
Highlights
N economic profitability, but rather constitutes a political obligation of the State to guarantee an essential public service and a basic and inalienable social and human right
The individualistic, economistic and utilitarian ideology of neoliberalism tried to make us believe that the only valid rationality was the instrumental rationality of homoeconomus, that private egoism was the best way to achieve public virtues, that collective solidarity was anti-natural, that social justice was a chimera and that the world was reduced to a set of isolated individuals in permanent competition with each other
In contrast to what neoliberal capitalism proclaims, Public Health cannot be understood as a private business based on economic profitability, but rather constitutes a political obligation of the State to guarantee an essential public service and a basic and inalienable social and human right
Summary
N economic profitability, but rather constitutes a political obligation of the State to guarantee an essential public service and a basic and inalienable social and human right. Within the framework of this hegemonic operation, the broadcasters and spokesmen of neoliberal capitalism justified the application of economic policies of State Reform, through the privatization and commodification of public and common goods, the opening and deregulation of trade and finance, the “flexibilization” of the labor market, the fiscal adjustment (“austerity”) of public spending on health, education, infrastructure and social security, and even (in peripheral countries) on science and technology.
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