Legítima defesa para quem? O real papel das Forças Armadas na política de segurança pública na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This dissertation was developed from the premise that capitalism emerged, is maintained and expands based on violence, which comprises two contradictory but intertwined types and that with the establishment of the system are adopted simultaneously: the directly non-economic violence and the violence of commodity fetishism. In this sense, two Marxist theories were adopted, the one formulated by Pachukanis, which maintains that the fetish present in mercantile exchanges that generates a general equivalent in the abstract without correlation in the substantial sphere extends to the juridical form, characterizing a disguised violence, and an explicit juridical violence developed by the Marxist theory of primitive accumulation. With this, the initial hypothesis in this study is that the employment of the Armed Forces in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, through the operations of the guarantee of law and order, is the materialization of the directly non-economic violence, the explicit juridical violence, carried out by capitalism in the face of conveniently fabricated “enemies”, based on the National Security Doctrine and the disseminated fear, but that in the justification for its adoption would persist the mystification around security, order and progress. Thus, four operations were selected because they were perpetrated during governments declared to be of the left, demonstrating that capitalism and its violence is maintained regardless of the ideological position of those who occupy political power, which confirmed the initial hypothesis of this research.