Marxian analysis of quota policy in Brazilian public higher education

Abstract

This article presents a theoretical and bibliographic review discussing social and ethnic-racial quotas in Brazilian federal higher education institutions, based on the historical and dialectical materialism. The study considers the university as an arena of class struggle and raises the question: to what extent does the policy of social and ethnic-racial quotas constitute processes of resistance to fair distribution and equal bourgeois rights? It is understood that the quota policy emerges and is justified on the assumption that the equal right does not include the black population. This bourgeois pseudo-equality does not consider this population’s historically denied access to socially produced goods and wealth. Therefore, there must be another form of access, which is connected to another form of facing the issue of universality, considering diversity and the need for unequal treatment, since the equal treatment maintains the inequality.

Keywords

• distribuição justa
• ensino superior
• igual direito
• marx
• política de cotas