INTERESSE PRIVADO VS REPÚBLICA: Quem Governa o Brasil de Verdade? | Maria da Conceição Tavares

Maria da Conceição Tavares explains why Public vs. Private Interest is in constant conflict. Understand how "societal resistance" and its interests in wealth hinder necessary changes and generate the institutional crises we see today. In this masterclass, economist Maria da Conceição Tavares analyzes the root of political crises: the irreconcilable contradiction between public politics and individual private politics. While the public sphere should be guided by reason, the private sphere is driven by passions, property, and immediate interests. In the current scenario of tension between the Three Branches of Government in Brazil, Tavares' analysis becomes indispensable for understanding how private institutions and "vested interests" fiercely resist any change that points towards a social future. The discussion moves on to the role of intellectuals and bourgeois revolutions, demystifying the idea that theory leads to practice. Conceição Tavares points out that real transformations derive from class struggle and the concrete historical forms of capital organization, and not from academic voluntarism. By citing Lenin, Trotsky, and the Enlightenment thinkers, she reinforces that history is often unpredictable, even for those who have one foot in theory and the other in revolution. 00:00 The contradiction: Public vs. Private 00:52 Pathologies and societal resistance 02:04 Idealism vs. Class Struggle 03:44 The weight of dead ideologies on living ones 04:38 Lenin, Trotsky and historical unpredictability 05:27 The myth of the Enlightenment in practice #politicaleconomy #mariadaconceiçãotavares #politicalcrisis #classstruggle Year: 1992 Full video:    • RAZÃO · Hegel, Marx e o Conflito entre o P...