O racismo como expressão da alienação

Abstract

The dissertation discusses modern racism as a qualitatively new phenomenon that is based above all on differences in color and is expressed as a alienation in the sociability of capital. For this, presents the slave labor of European colonies in the Americas and the Antilles as greatest engines of primitive accumulation of capital. Identifies the contradictions which arise from the material base of production that, on the one hand, liberates the worker of the glebe and corporations turning him into goods found easily on a market for buying and selling of labor force. On the other hand, transforms free human into slaves in the colonies, especially the black ones, as mere instruments of production. Modern slavery is compared to his earlier forms and presented while particular historic ground of the racial alienation genesis in which racial theories, supposedly scientific, developed from the XIX century, constituting in terms of theoretical abstraction the justification for prejudice and the establishment of alienated relationships between individuals and groups of different color and appearance in external aspects. The category of alienation expressed by the Hungarian philosopher Georg Lukács is fundamental to the study for understand the relation of race/class and race/alienation. It reveals the ontological character of alienation in the social development process while an obstacle to the growth of individuals towards an authentic personality and the recognition of black ones as human gender, essential category that arose from the labor.