Crise estrutural do capital e genocídio da população negra como política de controle dos supérfluos

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the impacts of the structural crisis on the lives of Black people in Brazil. Therefore, we conduct a historical review of the concept of race and how capitalism appropriates this idea of race to legitimize an entire process of exploitation. Therefore, in a context of structural crisis and technological advances, where living labor is replaced bi dead labor, capital encounters difficulties in its reproduction, since surplus value can only be extracted from living labor. This replacement gives rise to an ever-increasing contingent of superfluous people, these people beyond the industrial reserve army. From this, we will show how capitalism uses racism to form this initial mass of superfluous people. We will then examine the genocidal policies that the state exercises against these people, given that these people are of no use to the reproduction of the capitalist mode of production.