Abstract
This article aims to work out transformational proposals for development policies in Brazil sustained by Ruy Mauro Marini's analysis of the nature of peripheral capitalism in Latin America. In his analysis, superexploitation is constituted as a category showing the structural conditions of capitalism in Latin America, which tend to reproduce. In his most important work—Dialectics of Dependence (1973 [2000])—Marini shows that this very specific Latin American capitalism is deformed as compared to that observed in advanced countries. In this case, superexploitation does not impair the reproduction of labor power, but it limits the dynamics of accumulation through the extraordinary concentration of income and wealth. Considering that the political stance of Marini is clearly revolutionary, the proposals are valid only as an exegesis of his thought, and are not presented as a result of its theoretical propositions. The idea is to associate superexploitation and concentration of wealth, showing that the sui generis nature of peripheral capitalism represents a concentration of wealth and income much higher than that observed in developed capitalism.
Highlights
The adverse living conditions endured by workers are illustrated by Marx in various passages of his works, especially those in which he treats early English industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century
Overexploitation is at the center of Marini’s interpretation of the nature of peripheral capitalism in Latin America. In his most important work—Dialectics of Dependence (1973 [2000])—Marini shows that this specific type of Latin American capitalism is deformed in comparison to that in advanced countries
Overexploitation is constituted as a category reflecting elements of the limited dynamic range of accumulation given by the recurrent extraordinary concentration of income and wealth
Summary
Abstract:This article aims to work out transformational proposals for development policies in Brazil sustained by Ruy Mauro Marini’s analysis of the nature of peripheral capitalism in Latin America. In his analysis, superexploitation is constituted as a category showing the structural conditions of capitalism in Latin America, which tend to reproduce. Superexploitation is constituted as a category showing the structural conditions of capitalism in Latin America, which tend to reproduce In his most important work—Dialectics of Dependence (1973 [2000])—Marini shows that this very specific Latin American capitalism is deformed as compared to that observed in advanced countries. As labor is a creator of use-value, is useful labor, it is a necessary condition, independent of all forms of society, for the existence of the human race; it is an eternal nature-imposed necessity, without which there can be no material exchanges between man and nature, and no life
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