THE RELATIONS OF AGRIBUSINESS WITH THE STATE UNDER THE POLITICAL HEGEMONY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CAPITAL IN THE FIRST ACTS OF THE THIRD LULA GOVERNMENT

Abstract

Lula da Silva's rise to a third presidential term occurs amid a historical situation full of emerging class conflicts and dynamic economic movements, such as the financialization and foreignization of land and the financialization of agriculture. As they play an important role in the political-ideological consolidation of agribusiness, the hypothesis is that such effects affect the formation of the power block of the Brazilian State. Therefore, based on a bibliographical review and a documentary analysis using secondary sources, the research seeks to investigate the political alignments and conflicts of the agribusiness class fraction with the interests of the bourgeois fraction associated with international capital. The manifestation of the class fractions that make up agribusiness as a “political concert” consolidated in the representative political scene is due both to their performance in the executive branch and to their significant presence in the National Congress. It must be considered, however, that the hegemonic class fraction in the peripheral liberal model is the associated great bourgeoisie, which, in turn, holds political power and represents the interests of international financial capital, ultimately.