O trabalho escravo contemporâneo no sudeste paraense: as vias abertas depois do Golpe de 1964 e a retórica desenvolvimentista

Abstract

During the period of the Brazilian military dictatorship, several accusations of contemporary slave labor appear, occurring in Southeast Pará, more frequently from the 1970s onwards, a historical period where there was a complete omission of the State in face of this terrible reality, there was a transformation of this scenario in the following decades the result of the political struggle led by quilombos, communities of native peoples, workers, CPT, unions, parties, civil organizations, lawyers, OAB and members of the Judiciary. The Amazon, since the period of the great navigations in the 16th century, has always been the target of external interests, which evolves in line with that of capitalist society, and continues to not largely serve the Brazilian population, but the interest of a minority that explores in the region and submits to the interests of international capital. Based on one of the main works by Ruy Mauro Marini “The Dialectic of Dependence”, pointing out the contributions of the Marxist Theory of Dependence to the class debate on slave labor and analyzing how the intense transformations in the Brazilian Amazon are linked to the interests of the international division of the work, and are consolidated when there is a re-articulation of this system after World War II, when Brazil continued to be a country of dependent and peripheral capitalism, and solid bases were built for activities that exploit slave labor within the Legal Amazon, place where the public policies for the integration of the military were built, meeting the logic of conservative modernization of urban and rural industry. Our economic bases continue to be sustained by the predatory extractivism of agribusiness and with the logic of export, aiming only profit for profit, with the phenomenon of slave labor operating on the basis of these activities of the colonial period to today. Thus, in the current phase of global and financial capitalism there is a developmentalist rhetoric that is strongly expressed in Brazil, a pulsating factor during the 21st century, and which demands an agenda of investigations and construction of material conditions that gradually lead us to overcome this system that it does not define the end of human history, but by sustaining its foundations in overexploitation and slave labor, it defines the end of freedom.