Banca de DEFESA: JOAO AUGUSTO PESSOA LEPIKSON

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STUDENT : JOAO AUGUSTO PESSOA LEPIKSON
DATE: 28/02/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Ambiente virtual Zoom
TITLE:

The “iron law” of capitalist hierarchy: the imperialist organization of the world system and the Chinese counterexample

KEY WORDS:

Cycles of capital accumulation, imperialist organization of the world system; rigidity of the capitalist hierarchy; China's rise in the capitalist hierarchy, structural subsovereignty

PAGES: 282
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Administração
SUMMARY:

This theoretical research based on historical materialism aims to present the mechanisms of the "iron law of the capitalist hierarchy" in a long-term perspective. Starting from Marx's theory of value, it seeks to show that the world capitalist system is organized by imperialist forces to ensure the periphery-center direction of global flows of value throughout the cycles of accumulation and why peripheral countries cannot find ways to overcome underdevelopment within the limits of the reproductive logic of world capitalism. The "iron law" is proof of the success of the imperialist organization. In this way, the Chinese ascension appears as a "historical laboratory" that illuminates one fundamental mechanism of that law: the structural subsovereignty of peripheral countries. The work has sequential objectives: initially, the movement imposed on the imperialist organization (the contradictory procedurality of accumulation) and, later, the reaction of the great powers to this movement: imperialism is presented as the conduct-organization of the world system in response to the concrete conditions of that procedurality. Therefore, the following specific objectives were established: to highlight the territorialized character of value generation in contrast to the possibility of appropriation in any territory; demonstrate that states act directly to promote the necessary adjustments to overcome the inevitable overaccumulation crises according to their positions in the systemic hierarchy; demonstrate that the subsovereignty of dependent countries is a "natural" consequence of the capital movement and fundamental foundation of the imperialist organization; presenting imperialism as "conduct in response": conducting-organizing the world system in response to the contradictory dynamics of accumulation; to present dependence as the materialization of the imperialist organization and that, therefore, the main mechanisms of value extraction vary throughout the cycles according to the "conducting response"; demonstrate that Chinese reforms begin at a convenient time diven by overacummulated capital and how the country avoids the installation of some kind of dependent capitalism, that is, how it avoids the "iron law" because it maintains in its social formation an element foreign to the reproductive metabolism of world capitalism, namely: ample capacity to exercise its sovereignty, despite the relative delay of production forces. Thus, from the Chinese counterexample, it is confirmed that the possibilities of development are not found within the limits of the organization of world capitalism.
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - MARISA SILVA AMARAL - UFU
Externo ao Programa - 1347935 - ANTONIO JORGE FONSECA SANCHES DE ALMEIDA - nullExterno ao Programa - ***.926.105-** - ANTONIO RENILDO SANTANA SOUZA - UFBA
Externo à Instituição - EDUARDO COSTA PINTO - UFRJ
Presidente - ***.383.436-** - MARIA TERESA FRANCO RIBEIRO - UFBA