Terra, capital e trabalho no modo de produção escravista: bases agrárias do racismo brasileiro

Abstract

This thesis studies the Brazilian slave mode of production. Its objective is to understand how enslaved social relations took place and the role of land exploitation and enslaved labor in this mode of production, its inherent laws and contradictions, the forms of alienation that resulted from it and the different theoretical interpretations of these relations. It also seeks to apprehend contemporary expressions of the racial division of labor, such as forms of land expropriation, socio-racial and sexual exploitation. The study is based theoretically and methodologically on bibliographical research and on the critique of political economy, with the work of Karl Marx as the main reference to study the capital-land-labor relationship, alienation and fetishism, and works by Jacob Gorender and Clóvis Moura as the main references to study the capital-land-enslaved labor relationship, alienation and fetishism in the brazilian slave mode of production. Critically dialogues with authors such as José de Souza Martins, Francisco de Oliveira, Octávio Ianni, Celso Furtado, Caio Prado Jr.; Florestan Fernandes, among others, who wrote incidents or made considerations about slave production relations. It analyzes, therefore, the socio-historical combination between racism and the agrarian question, conserved and updated under the so-called agribusiness, thus showing the structure of capitalism in its inextricable link with the combined and unified methods of accumulation through violence and economics, racial exploitation and racialization of social classes.