Industrialization and deindustrialization:

conceptualization essay based on the Marxian economic theory

Resumo

This essay aims to define the concepts of industrialization and deindustrialization, based on the Marxian economic theory. Historically, although deindustrialization is observed in relevant national economies (parts), this is not a systemic phenomenon of the global economy (totality). Theoretically, capitalist industrialization is identified as the establishment of productive forces in the machinery stage at the national level and under the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production. In turn, capitalist deindustrialization is defined as the reduction and decline of the economic weight of manufacturing, as a result of capitalist laws, in the expanded reproduction of social capital and, consequently, in the self-determination of the general law of accumulation in the national territory. Made possible by the level of capitalist development achieved by the productive forces, the structural changes in the core of the 1970s capitalist crisis of profitability were pointed out as the cause of capitalist deindustrialization.