CAPITALISM AND ITS PATH: FROM THE CLASSICAL APPROACH TO POST-FORDIST BIOPSYCHOPOLITICS

Abstract

This work was carried out in a comparative perspective, that is, it is a dialogue of historical and socioeconomic scopes. This is an essay aimed at awakening criticality regarding the consequences of socioeconomic changes operated during Western history, as well as regarding the predominantly Eurocentric academic approach produced both in relation to the theme and to the very concept of the West. The challenge proposed in the work is to present and trace the social-historical guidelines of a heterodox Marxist concept little debated in Brazil, namely, “biocapitalism” and “psychopolitics”, that is, the post-Fordist organization in which the “factory” is confused with society itself. , in a kind of “social factory”.