Chronic unemployment and relative surplus population: notes based on the critique of political economy - Desemprego crônico e superpopulação relativa: apontamentos a partir da crítica da economia política

Abstract

This paper addresses the contemporary problem of chronic employment from the perspective of the critique of political economy by Karl Marx. It seeks to understand the historical and categorical connections between chronic unemployment and movements to recompose relative surplus population in capitalism. The analysis was conducted through a bibliographical study of the main texts in which Marx presents the genesis and development of the capitalist society. It also investigated the work of current analysts who have delved deeper into the reproduction of this sociality in the context of its structural crisis. The recomposition of relative surplus population is linked to the ways in which capital endeavors to resume accumulation, thereby deepening its structural contradictions as the crisis unfolds.