A função do complexo militar-industrial na reprodução do sistema do capital

Abstract

The present study investigates the role of the Military-Industrial Complex in the reproduction of the capital system. With the purpose of clarifying the particularity of the Military-Industrial Complex and pointing out how this Complex constitutes an essential vector of the developed economies in the perspective of ensuring the survival of the capital system from the period that starts at the end of the 19th century until the present day. It is intended to apprehend the fundamentals and the main connections of this relationship that will make it possible to accompany the rise and possible crisis of the American power and its Military Complex responsible for great impact on the world economic balance, mainly, with a new phase of global hegemonic imperialism. At a time when the United States will also be able to feel the systemic contradictions that affect the capital system, there are signs of a decline in its power, even if the absorption of the surplus by the consumption of the military merchandise of the industrial military complex meets the destructive imperatives expanded self-realization of capital. Approach the theses elaborated by Karl Marx, which contributed to apprehend the materialist perspective of history. Through research, we managed to understand the relationship between the complexes, since, among the complexes that make up the social totality, there are branched interactions that can explain their functioning, the efficiency of their reproduction and their contribution to the accumulation and expansion of capital. For a better understanding of the Military-Industrial Complex and of the essential economic categories surrounding this complex, we will use the valuable reflection left by István Mészáros in his work Beyond the Capital. We also analyzed the contribution of other Marxian and Marxist authors, such as Rosa Luxemburgo, Lenin, José Paulo Netto, Eric Hobsbawm, David Harvey etc., as a decisive scientific production to capture the foundations of the referred complex, thus operating also a process of elucidation of the existing relationship between State and Capital.