A crise orgânica do capital: o valor, a ciência e a educação

Abstract

The research, entitled The organic crisis of capital: value, science and education, in theory maintains that the concept of capital is the expression of the social relation that dominates capitalist society and, as such, when its dialectic moment of self-denial is reached - the crisis of capital -, the character of the category crisis is redefined as an organic, structural and historical concept, externalizing itself in the economy, as crisis of the value; in science, as a paradigm crisis; and in education, as a pedagogical crisis. Under the dialectical method of historical materialism, aided by epistemology and applied mathematics, the qualitative research focuses primarily on the work of Marx and secondarily in Marxist and non-Marxist contemporary literature, documents and official statistics. The purpose is to demonstrate that the crisis in the global economy of the last decades of the twentieth century and of the present century, are singular moments and expressions of a general or global crisis, whose causal essence is the erosion of the Law of Value, precisely of the value measurement paradigm - the socially necessary labor time - the structure of the value composition, or organic composition of capital and surplus value over which orbit the relations of production and reproduction of capitalist society. The final crisis or the collapse of capitalism are still problems and puzzles unsolved by Marxist theory whose resolution requires a conceptual reinterpretation of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation that surpasses the business cycle theory and enter into the theory of the structural, organic and historical crisis of capital. In the Grundrisse, Marx said that the domain of the general intellect and general social knowledge over the production process and social life would result in the narrowness of the socially necessary labour time to measure science and education in the value composition of capital. The research evinces that this is now a fact, thus the decisive character of these categories in the organic crisis of capital aggravation and overcoming. The double character of those activities of the historical subjects leads, on the one hand, the contradiction between the general intellect or knowledge value and the value measurement paradigm to the paroxysm; on the other hand, leads to the logical and historical analysis between the industrial, or scientific, revolution and the development of the capitalist mode of production; this demonstrates the subordination of science and education to the purposes of the political economy of capitalism and, consequently, the crisis of paradigms experienced by both as indicated by documents and statistics of international institutions and scientific papers. Finally, the thesis proposes the construction of strategic and experimental centers of pedagogical based on the free time paradigm in the human formation, as proactive action to the scientific and social revolution.