Aspectos do irracionalismo da fase imperialista em Joseph A. Schumpeter

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to understand the thought of Joseph Alois Schumpeter through the immanent analysis of two of his most consecrated works, The Theory of Economic Development and Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. The hypothesis worked out is that Schumpeter expresses bourgeois conservatism, embracing both elements of vulgar apologetics and elements of irrationalism. As we have discovered in the course of the examination carried out here, the predominance in Schumpeterian theory is irrationalism, especially in the author's maturity phase, when he elaborates a romantic critique of capitalism accompanied by the proposal of the alternative "third way" between capitalism and socialism. As an ideologist who has always been alongside the commitment to maintain the bourgeois order, we place Schumpeter's theory in the process of ideological decadence of the bourgeoisie.