Do bellum omnium contra omnes ao ausschuss da burguesia: o Estado Moderno e sua funcionalidade para a reprodução do capital

From the bellum omnium contra omnes to the ausschuss of the bourgeoisie: the Modern State and its functionality for the reproduction of the capital

Abstract

The modern national states appeared at the end of the medieval period and in conjunction with the rise of the bourgeois class, as a way of guaranteeing the emergence and the expansion of the capitalist mode of production through multiple and essential mediations. They emerge as an apparatus that guarantees infrastructure, territorial expansion to the spatial adjustments, but, above all, as an ideological apparatus, starting from its legal-political-institutional functionality to the mode of production. Thus, from the first theories about its indispensability to contain the war of all against all until the criticism of its instrumentalization by the ruling class, several were the theoretical postulates that involved the Theory of the State. Throughout this article, it is intended debate some of these theoretical statutes, observing the relations  that substantiated the functional logic of the modern state to the sociometabolic expansion of capitalist accumulation.