Fundamento ontológico do racismo e revolta contra o capital

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the ontological foundation of structural racism, that is to say, its origin, nature and social function in the capital system, as well as the revolt of racialized people through its aesthetic reflection. We start from the Marxian method through the central category of totality, based on a historical-social ontology. Thus, the investigative path begins with the immanent analysis of chapters 24 and 25 of Capital, Book I, which deal, respectively, with the primitive accumulation of capital (16th to 18th centuries) and colonization, a period in which temporally locates the origin of structural racism. The anatomy of capital reveals that it has a bourgeois nature, as it was created during the genesisof capital accumulation, therefore, racism and capital are inextricable. The social function of racism is found in the process of dehumanization of racialized people, a finding made from Almeida, Fanon and Césaire, along with the Marxian writing. Furthermore, racist dehumani- zation is intrinsically linked to commodity fetishism and alienation. Racism leads to the revolt of the racialized ones. To demonstrate this revolt, we resort to Lukacsian aesthetics, in order to elucidate the aesthetic reflex and its relationship with human self-consciousness. At this juncture, the art of the racialized group is embodied as a reaffirmation of the humanization process, in contrast to the dehumanization established by the capital system. We scrutinized the human drama of the racialized group concerning the evocation of the feeling of revolt and resistance against capital, through the aesthetic reflection. We analyzed the lyrics of seven capoeira songs, as well as the novel Me, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem written by Maryse Condé. We note that structural racism is a mechanism created by the bourgeoisie to intensify the process of exploitation, expropriation and decimation through the dehumanization of racialized people. Their labor power is transformed into a commodity and the production alienated from the producers. In the particular case of enslaved black women, rape was constituted as a form of reproduction of the enslaved workforce, therefore, the surplus value accumulated by capita-lists in the colonization process was undertaken on the systematic and collective rape of black women. Structural racism was created by the capital system and can only end with the destruction of this system and the construction of a sociability based on human emancipation.