Abstract

CAMPOS, Gustavo de Aguiar; OLIVEIRA, Isabel Fernandes de  and  CRUZ, Ana Vládia Holanda. Authoritarian state on the periphery of capitalism: notes on police violence in times of crisis of capital. Estud. psicol. (Natal) [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.4, pp. 404-411. ISSN 1413-294X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.22491/1678-4669.20210038.

This article is an exploratory theoretical essay on the relationship between police violence and the State based on contributions from the Marxist tradition, particularly on the configuration of the capitalist state in the Brazilian dependent economy. The objective was to analyze how the current moment of capital's social metabolism configures the police and presents limits to its transformations as a public force in the dependent State. For this, the category State was discussed as a political form of capital, and then contributions were made to reflect on the structural crisis of capital and the authoritarian restructuring of the Brazilian State in guaranteeing the reproduction of accumulation patterns. After this discussion, contributions to the reading of the police are presented, focusing on the authoritarianism of this institution and discussing the limits of its understanding when not carried out in the economic-political sphere of the production mode based on the exploitation of labor and the inequality of the distribution of social wealth produced.

Keywords : State; dependent capitalism; structural crisis of capital; police violence.

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