Generalized wars, capital and incarceraion in Brazil

the advance of the war in the Amazon and the antagonisms in prisions

Abstract

The unstoppable accumulation in capitalism historically occurred together with the constitution of a generalized war machine, a permanent civil war that unfolds as securocratic wars, subjectivities wars, racial wars, wars on the poor and multispecies wars. We will see how these wars enable economic, interracial and gender relations, being internal conditioning factors of monetary accumulation itself and of the categories that structure capitalism: work, commodity, money, the State, etc. Next, with a view to placing incarceration as a form of effectiveness of the war machine of capital, there is a brief genealogy of the antagonism to prison from the turn of the 20th century to the present, demonstrating how political opposition led to expansion policies and organized crime was incorporated in prison management, becoming fundamental to the dynamics of permanent civil war government. Finally, we will deal with the last consequences of the expansion of the federalization of organized crime and militias that find their paroxysm in the Amazon region, expanding dynamics that are simultaneously criminal and connected to global capitalism. There, international trafficking, mining, land grabbing, wood smuggling, and the extermination of animal and plant species has led to an explosion of violence, murders, racialization and proletarianization of populations in the Amazon region.

Key words: War; Prison; Amazon; Racism; Gender.