Desenvolvimento das forças produtivas, crescimento da população supérflua e favelização nesses tempos de crise estrutural do capital: um estudo sobre a Vila Olavo Costa

Abstract

Capitalism is in a phase of structural crisis, that is, this system no longer has any way out to continue reproducing the patterns of accumulation that sustain it. Driven by competition, capital tends to expel living labor from the productive sphere by increasing the use of technologies, that is, the constant capital increase. Under these conditions, the development of the productive forces is a mechanism incapable of facing its ruin, since only living labor is capable of producing more value and profit. The value of goods is measured by the socially necessary labor time for their production. Technologies raise productivity but profits tend to decline. As the rationality of this system is focused on accumulation without measures of wealth, capital has become an automaton, since in the search for its valorization, which is threatened, it presents destructive tendencies not only of natural resources but also of humanity for Destruction of jobs, which is the only means of survival for the majority of the world's population. The increase in poverty, unemployment, the growth of a population that is superfluous to the interests of capital appreciation, gains visibility in the phenomenon of slum-dwelling, and the increase of peripheries around the world. Without access to formal work, large numbers of human beings live in poverty, leaving them with the worst places in the cities. This mass also tends to experience the abandonment of the state, which in this context is also in crisis, representing only the interests of big capital, allocating large slices of the public fund to feed corporate initiatives and to pay public debt, instead To invest in social policies and rights for this population. The unemployed and unemployed population of Vila Olavo Costa, in Juiz de Fora, was taken as a starting point to reflect the limit situation of the urban contingents that no longer present functionality for capital in this context of crisis.