Portugal retrato social

"How did then Thatcher secure her power? The true answer may be a good deal more mundane than any talk of "hegemonic discourses". [...] She set out from the beginning to break the power of organized labour by deliberately fostering massive unemployment, thus temporarily demoralizing a traditionally militant working-class movement. She succeeded in wining the support of an electorally crucial skilled stratum of the working class. She traded upon the weak, disorganized nature of the political opposition, exploited the cynicism, apathy and masochism of some of the British people, and bestowed material benefits on those whose support she required. [...] If people do not actively combat a political regime which oppresses them, it may not be because they have meekly imbibed its governing values. It may be because they are too exhausted after a hard day's work to have much energy left to engage in political activity, or because they are too fatalistic or apathetic to see the point of such activity. They might be frightened of the consequences of opposing the regime; or they may spend too much time worrying about their jobs and mortgages and income tax returns to give it much thought. Ruling classes have at their disposal a great many such techniques of "negative" social control [...]."


Terry Eagleton, Ideology: an introduction.


Errata: "Thatcher" leia-se "Sócrates";
"British" leia-se "Portuguese";

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