Protective and aggressive states in the world society: the social effects of Covid19

The socio-health crisis generated by the proliferation of Covid19 is producing a transformation of the state into world society, recreating two innovative forms: that of the protective state and that of the aggressor state. In this work, I will argue that this transformation is mainly the product of a massive flow of delegation of social power fostered by a worldwide movement of social self-preservation. The expansion of the state's protective function, in turn, is coproducing in record time a new exceptional political legitimacy, which impacts the popular and elitist fields of world society. The article identifies the new socio-political aspects that bring with them the current conjuncture, as well as the main continuities and ruptures related to the social processes involved.