Estado e ideologia na terra arrasada do capitalismo

Abstract

The objective of this work was to present, through the hypothetical-deductive method and a bibliographic review of predominantly Marxist literature, the main drivers that guide state action and its governmental forms, identified as the main agents in the expansion and maintenance of capital accumulation and of the economic and social implications on which this process is based. Initially, an attempt was made to deal with the issue of two apparent antipodes that assume the governmental forms of the state, that is, both the democratic republics and the exceptional/repressive states — seen as in fact complementary forms that the State must assume in face of conjuncture imposed by imperialist capitalist accumulation and even the class struggle. In sequence, we seek to demonstrate two of the different areas shaped by the capitalist ideology and how they act synergistically with the State for the stabilization of the capitalist system.