Questão fiscal: consensos e dissensos na literatura marxista à luz das contribuições de Alex Callinicos
This dissertation aims to assess how Marxists have been discussing the fiscal issue (debate about the meaning of austerity, the direction of the public debt, and fiscal policy) in the context of the crisis of contemporary capitalism. First, Alex Callinicos' interpretation is exposed to deal wit...
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| Format: | master thesis |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) |
| Repository: | Repositório Institucional da PUC_SP |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.pucsp.br:handle/32195 |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/32195 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA Questão fiscal Crise Capitalismo Literatura marxista Fiscal Issue Crisis Capitalism Marxist literature |
| Summary: | This dissertation aims to assess how Marxists have been discussing the fiscal issue (debate about the meaning of austerity, the direction of the public debt, and fiscal policy) in the context of the crisis of contemporary capitalism. First, Alex Callinicos' interpretation is exposed to deal with the dilemma of crisis, which presents a reading that makes it possible to understand the crisis in its logical and historical aspects. Henceforth, in order to apprehend the discussion of the Marxist school on the fiscal issue, a systematic critical review methodology is applied in order to, based on objective criteria, select and analyse the relevant bibliography in the area. The next step is to compare the review results with Callinicos's thinking, highlighting trends in the capital, the interpretation of the crisis of capitalism, its connection with the fiscal question and the limit of reformism. Additionally, the nature of the discussion is compared in the case studies obtained in the review, highlighting the difference between the reforms applied on European soil and those in the rest of the world, also emphasising what the authors think about the practical possibilities in the face of the challenges imposed by the fiscal issue. In our conclusion, it was possible to apprehend that the Marxist current debates the fiscal issue in two main axes: 1) the limitation of fiscal solutions as a vector to challenge the problems of capitalism; 2) the impacts on social policies, which given the austerity, results in the advancement of mechanisms that promote the commodification of the public fund. We also emphasise how the theoretical description of phenomena is privileged much more than pragmatic action in the Marxist debate |
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