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"The demise of the welfare state has produced a decline in
the ideal of access to justice for all - the same fate that has
happened to access to education, health care, and other
services. The irresistible development of ADR thus must be
understood in connection with the demise of the welfare
state. Ideological hostility to the welfare state, first in the
United States and then all over the world, coincides with a
new, postmodern phenomenon. As a response to the access
to justice problem, the ADR industry promised a huge saving
in welfare funds. The access problem was to be solved by
denying it exists, with the extra advantage that the noncon-
formist man or woman loses the right to have a court rule
on their case and perhaps can be cured of their unreasona-
bleness and dissent.
53
"
Nessa linha de convicções, afirma Mattei que os meios alternativos
se inserem dentro do projeto neoliberal, e, por conseguinte, não estão
preocupados com o valor
justiça
. Assim como a
reengenharia
do Estado
está associada ao interesse do mercado,
54
a privatização da justiça, tra-
vestida de composição suasória, atende aos escopos dos detentores de
poder. Veja-se:
"ADR systematically favors the stronger economic and politi-
cal interests against the weaker ones while at the same time
effectively taming social dissent and silencing the demand for
justice. The emergency here is the impossibility of delivering
ordinary public access to justice and the consequent benefi-
cial nature of any kind of private alternative."
55
O autor, em outro ensaio,
56
destaca que a solução privatista impor-
ta em menosprezar as virtudes da litigância adversarial em favor de uma
ideologia da paz que apenas favorece aqueles que possuem poder de bar-
53
"Emergency-Based Predatory Capitalism..."
p. 17.
54 Mattei elenca quatro ajustes estruturais como cernes dos Structural Adjustment Plans (SAPs) do Banco Mundial
e do FMI: “First, let markets freely determine prices while reducing or eliminating all state controls. Second, transfer
all resources held by the state to the private sector. Third, reduce the budget of the state as much as possible. And
fourth, reform the courts and the bureaucracy in such a way as to facilitate the development of the private sector”
(
Ibidem
, p. 21).
55
Ibidem
.
56
"Access to Justice. A Renewed Global Issue?"
Electronic Journal of Comparative Law
, v. 11.3 (December 2007).