Dependência e a exploração do minério de ferro brasileiro no capitaloceno: trajetória, relações capital trabalho e colapso socioambiental

Abstract

This work seeks to analyze, through the Marxian method, the exploitation of iron ore in Brazil. It takes into account the Brazilian insertion in the international market of this primary commodity, since its beginnings, when the country was still an exploitation colony, until today. In addition, it also includes: the means of production adopted in the production processes; the trajectory of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and its subsequent privatization; the production relations existing in this sector of the economy; and the socioenvironmental collapse aimed at the dam breaks that occurred in Minas Gerais in 2015 and 2019. Finally, the relationship between the dam break and the capitalist production system is put into debate and, therefore, also the irreconcilable relationship between sustainability and capitalism in the iron ore production sector in Brazil.