A Geografia e a dissimulação da crise estrutural na trilha do agronegócio e da barbárie

Abstract

The historic inauguration of a permanent period of crisis in the capital system marks a catastrophic change in the rhythm of accumulation. The crisis process in its current stage no longer represents a period of inherent and necessary adjustments to the system itself, in the last half century the absolute limits of capital were activated so that all crises are anchored in a single crisis of a structural character and that puts in check the foundations that sustain the system. The structural crisis can no longer be ignored, despite being politically, economically, ideologically or strategically undersized. Currently in Geography, despite its diversity of approaches and methodologies, the crisis is sometimes internalized as part of its own constitution as a science, sometimes as a way to be overcome by environmental planning and territorial reordering, or it becomes a despised process in the face of the charisma through culturalism and strictly identity guidelines. In different ways, Geography acts in the dissimulation of the structural crisis. The financialized economy and in constant crisis has promoted substantial changes in the deregulation of national economies, imposing severe austerity policies for workers, securing - through the State - the precariousness and overexploitation of the workforce, undermining social policies and accelerated degradation of nature. in various parts of the world. In Brazil, the financialization of the economy also advanced on the countryside and found in agribusiness a way to profit through the speculative process. It was in the course of the Green Revolution that financialized agriculture would develop based on the State-capital-market triad, adopting technological packages that gradually made rural production dependent and subordinated to world monopolies. The tractor and the use of NPK fertilizers started this process that today is based on the use of pesticides and transgenic seeds. On the same side of the coin, maximum financial speculation in the commodities market, commodity and futures exchanges, fixed income funds from LCAs (Agribusiness Letters of Credit) and CRAs (Agribusiness Receivables Certificate) and Investment Funds for agribusiness. In our thesis, we understand that capital's strategy to guarantee direct or indirect control of production is based on the true nature of agribusiness, which is the speculative process and not production itself. Paradoxically, this gives rise to the relentless concern of agribusiness in propagating the exhaustion that is productive, “Agro is Everything”. The real process of agribusiness profit is not concerned with its destructive character, since the fluidity of speculation allows for a rapid displacement of investments to any part of the world. The agribusiness model is the result of the universalization of barbarism promoted by the structural crisis of capital: destroying nature, violating the workforce and speculating all spheres of life on the planet to the maximum exhaustion.