Crise, estado e periferia urbana: um estudo sobre o lugar dos excedentes na atualidade

Abstract

The object of this study is the inhabitants of the periphery of Brazilian cities who organize themselves to create alternatives to access the means of life, such as income and housing, in those times when the structural crisis of capital submits massive contingents to unemployment. In this sense, we seek to understand the current stage of the crisis of capitalism and the destructive processes of its mode of production driven by the ideology of modernity. We see a profound transformation in the world of labor as a consequence of the development of the productive forces that drives out human labor from production. Thus, the crisis of capital creates a superpopulation of the unemployed who, when it exceeds, no longer exercises the function of the reserve industrial army. They become unoccupied, superfluous, subject to discarding as waste in the peripheries of cities without the state guaranteeing them social protection.