Cooperativas no capitalismo contemporâneo: funcionalidade ao processo de reprodução do capital

Abstract

The research presented here makes a critical analysis about the reissue of cooperativist experiences in contemporary dynamic, with emphasis on labour cooperative and production. It has aimed to understand how these experiments articulate themselves to the current dynamics of reproduction of capital, in order to argue about the veracity of theories that points it as environments in which the workers would hold autonomy over the production process, even defend the production performed inside it as supposed route of overcoming the capital. Based on the social theory of Marx, are analyzed the fundamentals of capitalist production, resuming the key role of cooperation for the establishment and consolidation of capital as the dominant economic form. We seek to demonstrate that, despite its obscuration by the processes of "informalisation" and outsourcing, disseminated with the productive restructuring, the cooperative form remains governing the production in nowadays, including the one held in the particularity of the cooperatives. Recovers the context of the emergence of the cooperative ideal and its relation to the impoverishment of the working class as a result of the industrialization process, in the nineteenth century, to identify to which extent the current proposals relate to the original conceptions of cooperatives. In this direction, exposes itself about its pioneering creators, as well as the limits already present in the root of this ideal. Recover itself, in Mészáros, the elements which demarcate the conjuncture of the structural crisis of capital, in especial the chronic character reached by the unemployment in dynamic contemporary, for, from the analysis of the productive restructuring process, and the intensified job precarisation that inherent in it, identify the functionality of the reissue of cooperatives to the reproduction of capital in this context. It discusses about the impossibility of breaking with the capitalist mode of production through ties that reaffirm their essential dynamics, including wage.