STATUS AND EXPROPRIATIONS: A VITAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE SYSTEM OF CAPITAL
Keywords: State. Expropriations. Private propriety. Capital. Class struggle.
This thesis aims to analyze the relationship between the State and expropriations in the capitalist
system, explaining its ontological foundations and some of its concrete historical expressions. To
make it possible, from a theoretical-methodological point of view, an investigation was carried out in
bibliographic sources, resorting to classic and contemporary authors affected by the materialist
ontological perspective, and in documents published by official bodies and institutions. The thread of
the reflection that follows apprehends that – the State, a particular complex that, by its very nature,
protects private property and politically controls the socio-metabolic order – is inseparable from the
expropriation of collectively produced and privately appropriated wealth to sustain domination and the
particular interests of a class, triggering a web of clashes and resistances. In the course of the
exposition, the central argument is defended that the State, using the most diverse means, acts in the
field of class struggle in order to facilitate, stimulate and legitimize the expropriations that constitute a
condition of existence and reproduction expansion of capital, guaranteeing to a minority the social
monopoly of modern private property. The research, whose results are didactically condensed into
three chapters, brings to light the expropriation processes connected to the imperative search for the
valorization of value and demonstrates how the State complements the capital's sociometabolism;
when approaching expropriations as a permanent product of the current society, it points out the state
mechanisms used to preserve and recreate them in changing historical circumstances; presents the
repercussions of expropriations that negatively affect the daily lives of thousands of individuals in
different regions of the world, especially with unemployment and poverty. The appreciation of the
material studied shows, in short, that the different expropriations that have the full support of the State
occur in harmony with the self-expanding needs of capital. It also shows that the expropriations
carried out in the dynamism of capital are absolutely inconceivable without the direct or indirect
intervention of the State.