The present article presents the Marxist dialectics as a possible interpretation of reality and, particularly, the education reality. This logical construction of the historical materialism which grounds the Marxist thought is a possible theoretical way to look at reality. The historical materialism is characterized by the movement of thought throughout history. This method could be used by educators to overcome the apparent reality, and so allow the search, for a concrete educational reality, well thought and understood in all its several and diverse aspects, even the contradictory ones.
This article presents the main signs of the globalization process as well as the basic principles of the neo-liberal project currently being developed all over the world, and assesses the consequences of the subordination of a peripheral economy to the interests of international capital. The process of economic globalization and the progress of neo-liberal ideas impose upon Brazilian society the transformation of public education and health-care services, turning them into vehicles for the private accumulation of capital. This occasionally takes place in a disguised manner, worsening the quality of life of the bulk of the population.
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