Para além de Prometeu? : crítica às teorias da superação do trabalho pela tecnologia no contexto da acumulação destrutiva

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze contemporary theories of suggesting the overcoming of human labor due to technological development in the context destructive accumulation triggered by the structural crisis of capital. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, as part of the debate on the cancerous process and increasing unemployment since the advent of new technologies, the resumed discussion on the relevance, present and future of the thesis about the centrality of work exactly as Marx argued. In the analysis of Schaff and Masuda the changes in the relations of production and the emergence of new technologies based on computer would be empirical evidence that working while expenditure of momentum would one day die. In turn, the process of elimination of work would allow the emergence of a society of prosperity and freedom. Marxist conception occurs at work is a necessity, impossible to be removed from any social background, and the man is an active and indispensable the work process. Concerning the emergence of a new society, as a result of development of productive forces, Schaff Masuda and remove the class struggle as the actual movement of historical process and put in place the technological development, regardless of what are the social relations that establish how be the means of production. With such arguments, both authors ignore the structural crisis of capital described by Mészáros and suggest that the world would be safe walking distance to a society of plenty, where in addition to work being eliminated, the antagonisms between the classes would also be deleted.