O AGRONEGÓCIO NO BRASIL: O DISCURSO DA FRAÇÃO DE CLASSE REINANTE / Agribusiness in Brazil: the prevailing discourse of class fraction / L'agrobusiness au Brésil: le discours d'une fraction de la classe dirigeante

O modelo econômico hegemônico pautado na commoditização do Brasil tem submetido os povos do campo e das florestas a processos de expropriação e violência. Diante da apropriação dos bens comuns, da concentração de terras e da químico-dependência, torna-se fundante desvelar a construção ideológico-conceitual do agronegócio centrada nos indicadores econômicos que se ancora na manutenção de subsídios propiciados por um Estado burguês, facilitador da subsunção da renda da terra e da vida pelas corporações de commodities. Analisamos as estratégias político-discursivas, empreendidas pelo agronegócio, demonstrando as características hegemônicas e a unidade de discurso como campo conceitual de persuasão-convencimento da sociedade. Por fim, demonstramos as estratégias em marcha, no Governo Bolsonaro, para viabilizar a apropriação dos territórios bloqueados ao processo de acumulação ampliada do capital via agronegócio e mineração. Como citar este artigo: CARVALHO, Jéssyca Tomaz de; OLIVEIRA, Adriano Rodrigues de. O agronegócio no Brasil: o discurso da fração de classe reinante. Revista NERA, v. 24, n. 58, p. 28-55, mai.-ago., 2021.

Reprodukcja klas posiadających a przekształcenia rynku

The article is devoted to the problem of succession in family business in the perspective of class positions’ reproduction. The analysis of succession is carried out with reference to Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, particularly in relation to reconstruction entrepreneurs’ class position withingradationally-relational model of social structure, description of economic field transformation and role played by entrepreneurs in that process, analysis of modal trajectories of entering the economic field and to strategies and forms of capitals reconversion. Transfer of capitals was entangled within model of transmission of knowledge, power and ownership in family enterprises. Succession next to starting own enterprise must be seen as one of dominant strategies for social position reproduction within a possessing class fraction. Those two ideal-type strategies can be mixed in practice of position reproduction and lead to hybridized forms of family business and new enterprise. Class position reproduction however, can lead also outside possessing class fraction to those richer in cultural rather than economic capital. Analysis of succession cannot therefore be limited to family business only but must be considered with reference to wider context of reproduction of social structure.

We rule the world: an emerging global class fraction?

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate who rules the world. The hypothesis is that it is the 0.1 per cent of owners and controllers of capital. Design/methodology/approach – This study used secondary sources including the Bureau Van Dyk and The World Top Incomes database to look at distributions of income and wealth (stock ownership). This is supplemented with a secondary source analysis and with some interviews. Findings – The top point one per centers, the wealthy, those on the top incomes and transnational capitalist class are all distinct but overlapping categories that describe the (white) men and (few) women who hold power through their ownership and/or control of capital and who are thereby directly or indirectly able to act hegemonically on an emerging global basis. Research limitations/implications – Theorists of the global school of capitalism Alveredo et al., 2013 argue that there has been a qualitatively new twenty-first century transnational capitalism in the process of emerging (see Robinson, 2012a). This paper tests this assumption and relates it to the work by Hamm 2010. Social implications – The flip side of this progressively widening concentration of income and wealth into fewer (0.1 per cent) hands brings new lows to the polarisation of class, exploitation and domination. All of these have intensified since the 1980s with the end of the Keynesian Compromise. This north/south accentuated division has implications for social justice. Originality/value – This seeks to identify empirical evidence to support the theory of an emerging transnational capitalist class.

Der globale Bildungsmarkt

The regional and international initiatives on quality assurance, accreditation and recognition can be seen as part of current efforts to create a global service economy. While the Neo-Grarnscian approach offers a thorough analysis of the current restructuring of global power relations, its conceptual wealmess becomes evident when one looks at the institutional setting of the current changes in general, and the international initiatives on quality assurance in particular. Ail these initiatives are taking place outside the international organizations that are described by the Neo-Grarnscians as the core of the new constitutionalism. However, the initiatives can hardly be tal<en as an indication of an emerging counter-hegemony directed against the hegemony of the transnational class fraction. The main argument of the article is that these initiatives are in fact crucial for sustaining the global hegemony of this fraction.