As ferramentas utilizadas pelo capital para permanecer como sistema dominante: uma leitura a partir de Karl Marx e Eric J. Hobsbawm

Abstract

This paper analyzes the relations of capital in stages, in a vision of Karl Marx and Eric J. Hobsbawm, which defined this period of history within this capitalist perspective. Since its inception, gestation and development, starting in Chapter I, showing how surplus value is the driving force of this process of capitalism, as it is in all phases of capital, since the primitive accumulation, industrial revolution, the use of the State as a way to legalize and manage this system. It also shows, how this process is designed to gain the relations between employer and employee - between bourgeois and proletarian. Chapter II portrays the primitive accumulation, the process of enclosure and how it influenced the creation of hand labor exedente. Already in Chapter III, is set by the industrial revolution, which generated advances in the techniques and tools of production, thus creating a large number of industrial products, now produced in series, and how it led to gains rising bourgeoisie. Highlights of this work is how the gain is at the heart of capitalism and capitalism appropriates such circumstances to renew within the context of the global market crisis, and how it was designed on a global level, becoming mainspring of development.