Alfabetização política, relações de poder e cidadania: perspectivas interdisciplinares

Abstract

The text exposed here is the result of a collective project and written by various hands and minds, with the concept of political literacy as its theoretical and practical axis of support. A concept that can certainly generate controversy, especially if taken by an immediate apprehension and lacking mediation. The process of political literacy is not intended for the contingent historically prevented from entering the school world. As a rule, the illiterate politician hates mediations, especially political mediations. There is the literate political illiterate, even with higher education. The greatest educator of this Republic of the few, Paulo Freire, insisted on the thesis that the reading of the word is always preceded by the reading of the world. A characteristic of political illiteracy lies in the inability to read the world, to perceive it as a whole. There are wise people who are not literate and capable of doing properly the necessary and ingrained reading of the world, including political reading. The way out to Brazil is in Brazil, perhaps not in the Brasilia of Brasilia, but in the Brazil of the class that lives from work, including in Brasilia. As much as other countries, Brazil has two sources of all wealth, the Earth (the natural being) and the Man (the social being, the working class), on which, in Marx's statement, the destructive power of the System rests. of Capital. History is not destiny, it is an open field, an inventive space and a dialectical craft of human creation. Brazil has a way, not the parasitic way (through the little ways) that vast sectors of the elites turn to to get along at the expense of the purse, the work, the sweat and the misery of the working class. The way for Brazil to have a way is to democratize the means guided by teleology (purpose) of a collective life project in which the right to live with decency and respect for natural, animal and social beings becomes a common way of life. Finally, it is worth asking: what place does the political and electoral policy agenda of that country reserve for this project? Project impossible to materialize without political organization and training or, as the title presented here points out, political literacy.