ABSTRACT
The present chapter attempts to present neoliberalism as a historical mutation that is realised as a new totalitarianism. Totalitarianism: because at the core of neoliberalism lies the basic principle of the totalitarian social form, that is, rejection of the specificities of each social and political institution. As Claude Lefort explains, totalitarianism is the rejection of social heterogeneity, of the existence of social classes, of plurality in the way of living, in order to offer the image of a homogeneous society in accordance and agreement with itself. New: because, instead of the State absorbing society, we see that society absorbs the State.
