A crise estrutural do capital no limiar do século XXI.

Abstract

The theme of this essay is the study of the capital crisis present in our society in the last quarter of the 20th century. We begin with an in-depth study of the processes of production and reproduction of economic resources to obtain an understanding of the elements that serve as the foundation of the capitalist system. Consequently, we will also uncover the causes of the capitalist crisis. In the height of economic development, where the economy experiences a boom, some form of economic recession is sure to follow. This kind of crisis is normal and provides the push to the system, for it facilitates the relocation of its contradictions inside the internal dimensions of capital. These are considered cyclical trends of an economy but history in the last quarter of the past century has shown a deviation from these cyclical trends to trends that are becoming more structural in nature. We no longer experience periods of "bad times" such as when Wall Street crashed in 1929, but more or less a chronic and permanent depression. We have shown that a structural crisis happens due to the sovereignty of each of the dominant spheres of capital- production, consumption, and the circulation of wealth - which eventually reach a point where they no longer are in equilibrium with each other, and the system is exhausted. This structural crisis also induces another type of crisis, which is the crisis of capital domination, which manifests itself in politics, justice, and culture and in the collective consciousness of modern society. Therefore, the absence of reasons for the continuance of the process of the reproduction of capital creates a social consciousness profoundly alienated from the evils aimed at society by this detrimental system of capital. The level of alienation by the system is so deep that we are faced with the eminent collapse of the environmental conditions necessary for social development. Nothing can go against this capital reproduction, for it is self justified, and does not take into account humanity's best interest. In this process of production and reproduction of capital, there is a distinct role made by the military industrial complex and the decreasing rate of utilization, which associates the aspects of the capital production to the destructive production due to the production of armament. The role of science is significant in this process of development in this destructive production, for it has developed itself as the shadow of the military complex. Science in the end of this century has demonstrated the control that capital exercises over it, defining its scientific innovations based on the needs of capital's production and reproduction, showing its subordination towards capital and compromising its scientific position of neutrality. The intensification of the exploitation of the work force, military power and its destructive nature, the submissiveness of science's development towards the needs of capital reproduction are the main points of this essay that are the causes of the capital economic crisis and its subsequent crisis of domination.