Estado brasileiro “sem ilusões”: a tendência destrutiva do aparato estatal em suas relações com a natureza e sociedade

Abstract

This thesis has as its theme the Brazilian State and socio-environmental destruction in the context of the military-business regime and neoliberalism. The object of study was to deal with the destructive relationship of the Brazilian State with nature and society operated by infrastructure works and environmental destruction policies that boosted the economic development of the capital system in the Brazilian territory. The aim of the thesis was to demystify the analyzes of those who harbor illusions about the Brazilian State as a protector and conservator of nature and a defender of a “balanced” environment for society. Through the historical-dialectical materialist method, we capture the particularities of the Brazilian State, understanding the reciprocal articulation of coexistence between the material base (capital) and the political-legallegal sphere (State) in the Brazilian economic formation and the demands of international capital from the perspective of the global totality, in addition to the foundations of ecology and the “environmental question” anchored in Marxian thought and in the Marxist tradition. We analyzed the socio-environmental impacts caused by the state works Transamazônica, Tucuruí Hydroelectric Power Plant, Grande Carajás Project, Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant and Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant, and the harmful effects of the unbridled release of pesticides. The results indicate that the Brazilian State is one of the main agents of destruction of nature's biodiversity, on a large scale in the Amazon Region, and of society, causing socio-environmental damage, reinforcing our assertion of the destructive tendency of the state apparatus in its relations with nature and society.