Aviso de incêndio: notas para uma crítica da economia política da barbárie

Abstract

This dissertation aims to approach the category of barbarism from a dialectical perspective, that is, non-dualist. By lending itself to such an objective, the intention is to deepen the existing knowledge about both categories usually opposed, Civilization and Barbarism, exposing the reciprocal interpenetration in a specific form of sociability, that of capitalist Civilization. In order to do so, an itinerary was traced through which it was possible to logically reconstruct the determinant categories of the social formation addressed, as well as its form of self-expression. In this step, it becomes possible to expose something of the order of what keeps the sociability founded on the commodity, as we know it today, from a specific way of orienting itself inside the theoretical edifice erected by Karl Marx in his project the critique of political economy. The critique of commodity fetishism forms the basis of this journey, but it is not restricted, since it recognizes its necessary complement in the critique of legal fetishism. With this, it is intended to express the level of violence through which the supposed project of the modern commodity-producing society not only uses to establish itself, but also to maintain itself. This whole movement, given the level of abstraction at which it takes place, presupposes an approach in average-ideal terms. At the end of the work, some hypotheses are on the table, especially that of the logical exhaustion of the mode of social reproduction through the commodity form, whose historical counterpart already seems to give evidence of its form. As a categorical correspondent of this movement of reconfiguration of forms of social mediation, violence seems to emerge as a new social amalgam.