ABSTRACT

According to theory, the neoliberal state must strongly favor the rights of individual property and the rule of law, allowing the free working of markets and free trade. In this context, neoliberal scholars have looked for new forms of political regulation that could overcome the previous paradigm based on social conflict and the privileged role of the state, as sovereign entity, in the regulation of conflicts by using the command and coercion means available to it. The nature of the objection to the crisis of the state is deeply transformed. For the May 1968 students, the problem lay in the state’s inability to do justice and respond to the new social movements and their demands for more democracy and inclusion.