O REGRESSO DO DESENVOLVIMENTO HUMANO: um sintoma da pandemia de Covid-19?

The article aims to problematize the perspective of human development whose risk of regression is pointed out as a consequence of the pandemic period triggered by COVID-19. Through an exploratory survey based on documentary sources, it presents social indicators that demonstrate the challenges of human development over the last decades, particularly in Brazil. It reinforces that the reflection guided by the Marxian and Marxist critical social theory points out that the challenges to sustain the achievements of human development for all cannot be attributed exclusively to the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus, because even before the health crisis, the slow but important advances already achieved proved unsustainable in the capitalist social order, whose overcoming is a condition for a real and sustainable development of humanity, in the perspective of human emancipation