Capital crisis, COVID-19 and public leisure policies: drawing scenes from the next chapters

Abstract

The capitalist mode of production, still immersed in the crisis of 2007/2008, witnesses the worsening of this crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic. Seeking ways to resume the growth of their accumulation levels, it expands and deepens the forms of exploitation of the working class. These changes in labor have implications for leisure time and, in particular, leisure activities. Using the theoretical-methodological assumptions of historical-dialectical materialism and through bibliographic research, we have conducted analyses and consider that the neoliberal Brazilian state does not prioritize the guarantee of public leisure policies, further restricting the possibilities of leisure for the working class. While the bourgeoisie continues to  indulge in the consumption of various leisure goods, the  workers will only have the crumbs that fall from the table,  until they are capable of revolutionizing this mode of  production, emancipating themselves and forging socialism.