Social work and anti-capitalist struggles in Angola in the 1960s-1980s: A critical introduction

Abstract

Through a critical introduction, this article aims to analyze the relationship that developed between Social Work and the anti-capitalist struggles that took place in Angola between 1960-1980, with the aim of apprehending the determinations that built the profession of that time. The historical-dialectical materialist basis led the debate, through bibliographic and documentary research, through which it is perceived that the anti-capitalist struggles, in that period, were a constitutive part of a dependent capitalism already installed in Angola, by the Portuguese colonial route, and that this social formation engendered in Social Work a profession at the service of the mechanisms of super-exploitation of the labor force,  as well as for the formation of an Angola with the dictates of Western civilization. Faced with such a reality and taking into account the theoretical-methodological mediations that moved the Angolan revolutionaries, the struggles developed abolished not only the colonial regime, but also the profession, in 1977, in the way that it was only considered an "expression of colonialism".   

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.026-020