Aparato repressivo do Estado voltado para a pobreza: considerações acerca da realidade brasileira contemporânea

Abstract

The present work entitled "Repressive apparatus of the State focused on poverty: considerations about contemporary Brazilian reality" aims to understand the economic determinations that have led to the deepening of the repression of the State towards poverty in Brazil. On the basis of the Marxian perspective, it is sought to explain the ontological foundations of the State and its inseparable relationship with the economy, through a bibliographical research guided by the works of Engels, Marx, Lukács, Mészaros and other authors of the Marxist tradition, to understand the historical roots of the state and its repressive apparatus, as well as its nature and social function, demonstrating how in certain socioeconomic formations its potentially coercive essence manifests itself in a declared way, and as in the framework of capitalism, this can be veiled. It is defended, with the study carried out, the assertion that in the historical course of capitalist development, changes in the state's intervention form - including in relation to poverty - correspond to the needs and possibilities posed by capital in the different phases of its development. It means that, in order to fulfill its social function, the State may intervene in a predominantly repressive or cohesive manner, which demonstrates its capacity to create new forms, mechanisms and mediations in order to continuously maintain the process of production and reproduction of capital. In this way, it is understood that the phenomenon in question, of intensifying state repression in relation to poverty in Brazil, evidenced by empirical data revealing a mass incarceration in the country, the emergence of new repressive measures and the increase of deaths by are intrinsically linked to the current changes in the material basis, that is, to the process of accumulation and reproduction of capital in a conjuncture of structural crisis.