No. 4: Jan./Apr. 2021 - Capitalism and Racism: the black praxis

We have reached the fourth issue of our "Revista Fim do Mundo” at a time of worsening the current civilization crisis that we are experiencing. Considering the inherently cyclical nature of the capital accumulation process and the characteristics of contemporary capitalism, we are still under the effects of the world crisis that broke out in 2007/2008, coupled with an interminable health crisis. The answer to this crisis has been to deepen, from a global point of view, the dependence of peripheral economies on the logic of capital accumulation; and from the national point of view, from neoliberal reforms to the working class, configured as a dismantling of the democratic rule of law and a retrogression of the achievements of workers in the last century.

In Brazil, with the institutional coup in 2016 and the crisis generated by the pandemic, this “adjustment” of the crisis to the working class, implies a huge increase in the weight on the black population, which historically is the most exploited in the country, the old socialization of losses in the slavery particularity of our social formation. In this sense, a cyclical and structural reading of class racialization is necessary, as a particular feature of the constitution of social relations of production in Brazil, indicating a critical perspective towards Capital.