The state and the territorial development as support for the domination of Capital

Abstract

This study has its aim in analyzing how the State contributes to the capital, once being characterized as an institution responsible to create ideological politics for economic development. It is considered that the so-called local/territorial development hides the capital mobility, which is based on the process of territory expansion while getting in each local the specific leverage to make the most of its advantages, such as labour value and endowments of infra-structure, in order to (re) produce itself continuously. Based on the deceiving belief over the capital’s autonomy and the endogenous capacity to develop itself, the capital, personified in the State’s direction, spreads the propaganda of the territory as if it was a dynamic area, which economic potential have to be explored. Then, the capital owns the place, generating there a productive rearrangement that brings the best offers  to the accumulation. The territorial development, as a consequence, is used as an ambush to legitimate the capitalist production and at the same time it assures the appropriation/submission of those areas to the massive capital reproduction.