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Colaborador
Caligaris, Gastón
Mussi, Emiliano
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2000-2010
Idioma
spa
Extent
220 p.
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Cobertura
PRY
2000-2010
Abstract
Since the turn of the century, the global increase in commodity prices has boosted in South America the expansion of productive transformations associated with the optimization of large-scale production of agricultural goods highly demanded in the international market. In the Paraguayan case, among the most significant characteristics of the recent transformations, the increase in scale and the greater technification of the production process based on the concentration and centralization of agrarian capital stands out.
This thesis addresses the link between the unfolding of these transformations and the changes in the social structure during the first decade of the 21st century, paying special attention to the production of relative overpopulation. In order to achieve this, the critique of political economy originally developed by Karl Marx is taken as a basic framework, aiming to offer a macrosocial explanation focused on the determination of social subjects by the place they occupy in the process of capital accumulation (Iñigo Carrera, 2013; Starosta, 2015; Starosta and Caligaris, 2017). This places at the center of the investigation the recognition of social subjects as personifications of merchandise. In this sense, according to the merchandise that each subject personifies – capital, labor power or landed property – three roles are identified: the capitalist, the worker, and the landowner. However, the rural space presents social subjects that personify different merchandise or play different roles simultaneously, making the analysis more complex. Faced with this, our approach to the social structure proposes to identify the determining personification in each subject and then advance towards the study of its transformations as a result of recent productive changes.
In this line, we argue that the Paraguayan rural space is characterized by the predominance of two types of social subjects. On the one hand, small capitals, characterized, for the most part, by the simultaneous personification of capital, land ownership and, in some cases, even the labor force whose predominance is observed in almost the entire extension of the Productive territory. On the other hand, a massive working population that owns the means of production as a condition for its reproduction as a superfluous labor force.
In this sense, we consider that the most widespread visions about the Paraguayan social structure, do not manage to capture in a accurate way the profound implications that the deployment of recent productive transformations has brought about on Paraguayan society, since they do not start from an identification of the role played in the accumulation of capital by the subjects that constitute its object. The general conclusion reached by our study is that the strengthening of the concentration and centralization of agrarian capital and the consequent displacement and curtailment of small-scale productive units aggravated the stagnation and consolidation of a growing sector of the population that lives in rural Paraguay as relative overpopulation. Likewise, we argue that the modalities assumed by the Paraguayan overpopulation, both in the case of those who remain in the rural area and of those who have recently migrated to urban areas, are inseparable from the forms assumed by the accumulation of capital in this national area. These conclusions not only allow to reconsider some widespread arguments about the characteristic subjects of the Paraguayan social structure, but also provide a vision that broadens and opens new questions for the examination of recent transformations, contemplating dimensions scarcely addressed in the specialized literature.
This thesis addresses the link between the unfolding of these transformations and the changes in the social structure during the first decade of the 21st century, paying special attention to the production of relative overpopulation. In order to achieve this, the critique of political economy originally developed by Karl Marx is taken as a basic framework, aiming to offer a macrosocial explanation focused on the determination of social subjects by the place they occupy in the process of capital accumulation (Iñigo Carrera, 2013; Starosta, 2015; Starosta and Caligaris, 2017). This places at the center of the investigation the recognition of social subjects as personifications of merchandise. In this sense, according to the merchandise that each subject personifies – capital, labor power or landed property – three roles are identified: the capitalist, the worker, and the landowner. However, the rural space presents social subjects that personify different merchandise or play different roles simultaneously, making the analysis more complex. Faced with this, our approach to the social structure proposes to identify the determining personification in each subject and then advance towards the study of its transformations as a result of recent productive changes.
In this line, we argue that the Paraguayan rural space is characterized by the predominance of two types of social subjects. On the one hand, small capitals, characterized, for the most part, by the simultaneous personification of capital, land ownership and, in some cases, even the labor force whose predominance is observed in almost the entire extension of the Productive territory. On the other hand, a massive working population that owns the means of production as a condition for its reproduction as a superfluous labor force.
In this sense, we consider that the most widespread visions about the Paraguayan social structure, do not manage to capture in a accurate way the profound implications that the deployment of recent productive transformations has brought about on Paraguayan society, since they do not start from an identification of the role played in the accumulation of capital by the subjects that constitute its object. The general conclusion reached by our study is that the strengthening of the concentration and centralization of agrarian capital and the consequent displacement and curtailment of small-scale productive units aggravated the stagnation and consolidation of a growing sector of the population that lives in rural Paraguay as relative overpopulation. Likewise, we argue that the modalities assumed by the Paraguayan overpopulation, both in the case of those who remain in the rural area and of those who have recently migrated to urban areas, are inseparable from the forms assumed by the accumulation of capital in this national area. These conclusions not only allow to reconsider some widespread arguments about the characteristic subjects of the Paraguayan social structure, but also provide a vision that broadens and opens new questions for the examination of recent transformations, contemplating dimensions scarcely addressed in the specialized literature.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales