Suscitar uma máquina de guerra possível (e necessária) : pensando a relação entre aparelho de Estado e movimentos sociais

Abstract

The global demonstrations that occurred from 2010 evoked new ways of gathering and political struggle, producing cracks in the constitution of some knowledge, urging us to think about our conditions of existence and to dismantle hardened understandings on what is politics, democracy, activism and social movements. In this dissertation, we investigate the diagram of contemporary forces which have produced both the State apparatus and the social movements. By resorting to a cartographic method, we approached the Human Rights Defense Center of the city of Serra/ES (CDDH), which has a long background on struggling and achieving respect for human rights in the state of Espírito Santo. For a year, we joined the General Assemblies and the activities proposed by the CDDH and, through contact with the activists involved in this place, we also interviewed four local activists characters. The meetings issued by this course made us aspire to take apart what is hardened in the realm of social movements: the conceptions of a totalizer and transcendent State, the history as progress, the power as something that is detained by the State apparatus. We invested in the assembly of social movements as war machines, which are daily creating resistance, facing the capture processes engendered by the state apparatus.