Abstract

FERREIRA LIMA, Carlos Alberto. Social spending and capital crisis. Innovar [online]. 2008, vol.18, n.32, pp.9-26. ISSN 0121-5051.

This article deals with the question of budgetary spending having been produced by the class struggles occurring in capitalist society. Social spending during the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luis Inácio Lula da Silva is looked at and the data is used for presenting the reduction of public social spending and the detriment produced in Brazilian workers' daily lives. Cities are seen as the place where social rupture, inherent in capitalist society, became clearly manifest by the parallel state reproduced by narcotrafficking, another necessary ingredient for society's dynamics. The question of taxes during the last few years has been the object of analysis and this is used for verifying which significant part of them is being assumed by the workers, and whether this signifies a transfer of income for the state and the owners of capital. Public debt is (like inflation) presented as being necessary and inherent in the capitalist system. The concrete totality constituting Brazilian economic formation becomes the object of investigation when primary surplus and the law of fiscal responsibility as the state's autocratic and despotic imposition are being studied.

Keywords : social spending; non-merchandise; productive work; unproductive-destructive work; primary surplus.

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