Public interest and private interest

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Reginaldo Souza Santos

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It is attempted, in this article, a discussion of the dichotomy between public versus private interest. In the author's view, at the present stage of capitalism, this distinction seems unfeasible from a theoretical perspective, due to the classconscious character of the capitalist State and to the changes in its standards of production.

The writer believes that a discussion on these two kinds of interest – public and private - must leave the institutional organizative level (State/private organizations) and be transferred to a political and social context (the societal classes). He also argues that on this new way to plan for discuss the subject of public versus private interest should be decided from a reciprocal relation of forces between the classes and their respective parts.

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Santos, R. S. (1987). Public interest and private interest. Brazilian Journal of Public Administration, 21(1), 54 a 66. Retrieved from https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/9784
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