Globalização e mudança social: o conceito da teoria materialista do Estado e a teoria da regulação

The author starts off by examining the changes in world capitalism after the 1970s and 1980's crises, which are still unsolved. He presents an overview of what he calls not as a "new world order" but as a "growing global disorder" — after the soviet system break down, and the questionment of the USA hegemony by Japan or Western Europe. The paper explores the Regulation Theory and some concepts like "accumulation regime" and "mode of regulation", "nation-state", "state system", "national and international regulation" and "globalization". It also presents analyses of political system including the organization of the state, the manner In which class relations become institutionalized, the forms of social relations and compromised formation are meaningfull. The author explains that "international regulation" is structurally fragmented and weak because the global accumulation process is politically mediated by the nation-state form. The aim of this paper is to discuss the concept of Materialist State Theory and to present the Regulation Theory — a new attempt to renovate the theory of capitalism in the marxist tradition — as a theoretical reaction to the world economic crisis of the 1970's, which can answer to fundamental questions with respect to the capitalist world system and its dynamics.The author starts off by examining the changes in world capitalism after the 1970s and 1980's crises, which are still unsolved. He presents an overview of what he calls not as a "new world order" but as a "growing global disorder" — after the soviet system break down, and the questionment of the USA hegemony by Japan or Western Europe. The paper explores the Regulation Theory and some concepts like "accumulation regime" and "mode of regulation", "nation-state", "state system", "national and international regulation" and "globalization". It also presents analyses of political system including the organization of the state, the manner In which class relations become institutionalized, the forms of social relations and compromised formation are meaningfull. The author explains that "international regulation" is structurally fragmented and weak because the global accumulation process is politically mediated by the nation-state form. The aim of this paper is to discuss the concept of Materialist State Theory and to present the Regulation Theory — a new attempt to renovate the theory of capitalism in the marxist tradition — as a theoretical reaction to the world economic crisis of the 1970's, which can answer to fundamental questions with respect to the capitalist world system and its dynamics