Conteúdo e formas da crise capitalista em Marx: apontamentos iniciais

Abstract

The present work adopts the theme of crisis in Marx. The object of the study consists of the category of crisis, as presented by the German thinker in his analyses of the capitalist mode of production. Thus, the work addresses the following question: what does Marx understand by crisis? To this end, the method used was the reading and analysis of texts by Marx and some contemporary commentators on his work. The conclusion is that, for the German philosopher, economic crises are phenomena inherent to the cyclical movement of capitalist production and reproduction, in which all the contradictions generated by capitalist accumulation are made evident and have as their fundamental content overproduction, expressed in the visible surface of the movement of capital, in the form of a tendency toward the decline of the average/general rate of profit.