Two dissident readings on equality

Abstract

This article presents two dissident readings about the concept of equality. The first debate its content and form emanating from capitalist modernity, starting from the discussion of what is called here the Monsanto way, a paradigm of that capitalist way of being and doing consisting of the establishment of processes of homogenization, equalization, order, individualization, disproportion, de-subjectization and predation, constituted during the five hundred years of existence of the world system. The second focuses on the Cherrapunji mode, to illustrate that in the face of this simplification of life and the threat of its annihilation, difference, diversity, complexity, complementation, proportionality, subjectivity, intersubjectivity and coupling of subjects are constituted. that were otrized by capitalist modernity, imposing both a challenge before the prevailing logic of destruction and death, as well as a possibility of constituting another possible world based on the principle of completeness and community action where, although equality does not reign, that It is neither required nor desired, it does place life as the center of a new non-capitalist way of being and doing.