Novo liberalismo, estado e capitalismo de estado: o debate de Eugênio Gudin com Karl Marx

Abstract

The article examines Eugênio’s Gudin theoretical production, expressing his new liberal posture, highlighting the dialogue which he attempted at Marx and his followers. Gudin recognized the german philosopher as the biggest capitalism enemy. He attributed to his thinker the creation of the capitalism concept with historical connotations. Radically denying this content and balancing the conception of the natural and eternal character of this system, he focused the capitalism as a production system which connects itself harmonically with the democracy. He worked with the pair economy market and democracy as an antithesis of planning and totalitarism, structuring a discourse that stresses the abstract general plan, disregarding a concrete-historical analysis for each specific case. Consequentely, every aspect that does not fit that pair is considered undemocractic and interventionist, as an equivalent denial of the human ideal, thus, it should be avoided, or even better, destroyed.