A especificidade da onda punitiva brasileira

Abstract

The integral policy of the State is not exhausted in the exercise of its repressive function. This policy will not be properly apprehended if it disregards the interdependence that its functions bear among themselves. In a dependent capitalist state, the difficulty of accumulating capital internally influences the structuring and behavior of classes, reflecting the patterns of political domination. One of its most characteristic features is the production of a large contingent of marginalized labor force, unmistakable with the reserve industrial army, and functioning as a strategy of social and political control. In the Brazilian context, it adds to the hierarchy that results from division into classes, the overlapping of that which derives from the color of the skin. The recent, partial and already surpassed social redemption carried out mainly through the increase of the consumption capacity - mistakenly recognized as a post-neoliberal period -, paradoxically, instead of acting in the opposite direction, has remarked a a constitutive feature of the Brazilian bureaucratic field, better understood as a long-lasting process: the Brazilian state never took its people with the reverence that even a limited liberal legal order advocates.