A unidade estrutural entre questão agrária e “questão social” no capitalismo brasileiro

Abstract

Considering the agrarian question and the "social question" as inseparable parts of the same totalizing process, capitalist accumulation, this study intends to stick to the structural unity that it supposes to exist between them in the formation and development of the capitalist mode of production, in particular, in Brazilian capitalism. Based on research and bibliographic analysis of a qualitative nature, and in the effort to carry out a materialistic, historical and dialectical analytical movement, we start from the primitive accumulation to understand the connections of the agrarian question with the "social question", as well as to unveil its imbrications in the face of the industrial revolution and urban societies which, by increasing all the contradictions of the social order of capital, began to reproduce on an enlarged scale from then on. For capitalism, the private empowerment of the goods of nature is a presupposition. Therefore, the capitalist seizure of the land presents itself as the basis of the hypothesis presented here in approaching the agrarian question as a basis of the "social question" in order to determine it and, for the same reasons, to determine it. This is particularly true in Brazil, where the studies of this Dissertation are headed. For this, we start from the analysis of Colonial Brazil and slave until the capitalist Brazil of neoliberalism and agribusiness.