Dinâmica, determinações e sistema mundial no desenvolvimento do capitalismo nos termos de Theotonio dos Santos: da teoria da dependência à teoria dos sistemas-mundo

Abstract

The dissertation discusses the dynamics of long-term, determination and ranking of world capitalism in the work of Theotonio dos Santos. interest in this work is justified by the importance of the two topics in the Latin American social thought, and his theoretical journey, traveling between two strands of the theory of development: the Marxist Theory of Dependency (MTD), which was co-founder, and Theory of World- Systems (TWS), which became one of the greatest expone ion without a break, but based on the change of focus of the development underdeveloped in Latin America for the global system of capitalist accumulation. The ve of the author always sought unity in a continuous movement between social subjects, the structural elements (both private and general) of capitalism and their periodic trends, long term and establishes a relationship between economic factors and non-economic, especially the politicians, the stage of capitalism emerged in the post World War II, lly in peripheral countries, especially Latin America. The intention of the dissertation is to contribute to the identification of theoretical and methodological approach implicit in the thinking of Theotonio dos Santos, featured here in the binomial conceptual direction of development and regulation of the dynamics , methodological approach developed during production of the author and manifested in the transition of MTD the TWS results in its attempt to grasp the operation, composition, evolution and trends of global capitalism as a system, and would be a valuable contribution to a synthesis of Marxist theory of development.