The Subjective construction of the Brazilian colonial public debt system manifested in the context of the covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

This article will present the historical formation of the Brazilian public debt and its conception as a mechanism of domination and reproduction of the colonial structure. For this, the performance of its formal mechanisms of production and reproduction will be analyzed, making a temporal cut about this pandemic context that is used by the Brazilian State as a pretext to perpetuate and intensify indebtedness. Thus, public debt will be approached as a tool for aligning the country to the World-System and, in view of this, this conception will be related to decolonial studies, critically approaching public debt as a modern subjection of peripheral countries to "central nations". . Thus, we will seek to elucidate these questions through the analysis of state apparatuses of social and ideological control that build the figure of the “indebted man”. To this end, this article will use the descriptive methodology and the literature review.