Prisão e extermínio: um estudo sobre as formas de controle social em tempos de barbárie

Abstract

The capitalism structural crisis, triggered between the late 1960s and the mid-70’s, was a mark of the most remarkable transformations of social relations in the contemporary world. From that, new configurations take shape in the politics, economy, culture fields and, broadly, in institutions. What distinguishes this stage known as late-capitalism of earlier times, is the bankruptcy of the "civilization" prerogative and the society immersion in the most dramatic stage of barbarism. Institutions that have always served as the pillars of bourgeois society got into the new century in the process of frank shock. The measures presented as an immediate response to expressions of this crisis intensified the repressive features, which nevertheless are characteristic of the capitalist state. For these reasons, this work reflects on the exponential growth of the imprisonment and extermination actions in Brazil, in the last two decades. We believe that such forms of social control, which weigh about a certain fraction of the surplus labor force, constitute the most tragic expression of the Government crisis, inextricably linked, in actuality, to the movement of the capitalism structural crisis. We recognize that this framework is indicative of society regression, tending to barbarism.