Overview
- Unites diverse Brazilian scholars to examine economic and social trends in Brazil through a Marxist lens
- Examines fictitious capital and the place it holds in Marx’s exposure of autonomisation and subjectivation of capital
- Offers considerations on the deepening crises of capitalism in the immediate future
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Contemporary Capitalism
- Latin American Capitalism
- Brazilian capitalism
- Brazilian Marxism
- Marxism in Latin America
- Brazilian politics
- Brazilian political economy
- Fictitious Capital
- Economic Crisis
- capitalist mode of production
- capital accumulation
- labour power
- income inequality
- poverty
- financialisation
- fictitious profits
- reserve army
- Brazilian workers
- reproductive work
- neoliberal State
About this book
This book analyses contemporary capitalism from Brazil and from the Marxian critique of political economy, particularly; the co-dependency of wealth and poverty and of civilization and barbarism; the current tendency towards capital over-accumulation and the specific form assumed by the capitalist crisis in recent decades; the financialisation process of capital accumulation, its effects on the world of labour; and the place that the state assumes in this broad process. Current trends toward increasing social inequality, impoverishment of large sections of the population, precariousness of labour and rising unemployment, environmental destruction, the spread of austerity policies and the suppression of social policies, the rise of the far right (together with the strengthening of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, political and religious fanaticism and all manner of intolerance, etc.), low economic growth, the primacy of the financial dimension of capital accumulation, all need to be understood in their multiple and complex articulations, as fundamental and inherent elements of contemporary capitalism, associating empirical analysis with conceptual construction. Because they are strictly contradictory processes, a dialectical approach is required that reclaims the Marxian legacy, and aims to contribute to updating it, seeking to bring new and relevant elements to the Marxist debate, based on a specific interpretation of Marx's work, and as an immediate empirical basis the Brazilian reality.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gustavo Moura de Cavalcanti Mello is Professor in the Department of Economics and the Post-Graduate Program in Social Policy at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Henrique Pereira Braga is Professor in the Department of Economics at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wealth and Poverty in Contemporary Brazilian Capitalism
Editors: Gustavo Moura de Cavalcanti Mello, Henrique Pereira Braga
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82298-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82297-2Published: 22 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82300-9Published: 23 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82298-9Published: 21 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 225
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Theory, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Political Sociology, Political Science, International Relations