Relative Over Population and the “New Social Question”: an Invitation to Marxian Categories

Authors

  • Ednéia Alves de Oliveira UFOP - Minas Gerais - MG

Abstract

This article analyzes the mystified concept that poverty has acquired in the current stage of capitalist accumulation. It relates the growth of overpopulation to a critical perspective in which the conflict between labor and capital is an essential condition for the emergence and permanence of this overpopulation. It looks at the relationship of the general law of capitalist accumulation and at transformations in the order of capital, and then at the naturalized approach that the social question has acquired in this context, inviting a review of Marxian categories.

Author Biography

Ednéia Alves de Oliveira, UFOP - Minas Gerais - MG

Doutora em Serviço Social pela Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Professora do Curso de Serviço Social da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). Professora tutora no curso de Especialização a Distância –Cfess/Abepss/CEAD/UnB

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Published

2010-01-01

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2010): Serviço Social e pobreza

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Open-themed space

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