A dissolução do regimen capitalista

In the waning years of the nineteenth century, a devastating fire consumes the main workshops of Portugal’s Royal Railway Company, leaving six hundred laborers—and the families that depend on them—destitute overnight. The narrative opens with a stark accounting of their sudden unemployment, the half‑pay relief offered by the company, and the grim reality that even a modest wage barely covers food, shelter and clothing. Through this concrete disaster, the author exposes how ordinary workers become the true victims of a system that protects property but abandons people.

Building on that example, the book argues that the right to life inevitably includes the right to work, yet capitalism repeatedly undermines both. It highlights how the burden falls hardest on women and children, whose contributions are undervalued while their needs remain unmet. By weaving statistics, personal testimonies, and moral reasoning, the work invites listeners to question the foundations of a society that permits such chronic injustice and to imagine alternatives rooted in collective responsibility.