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FOSTER, John Bellamy. Educação e a crise estrutural do capital: o caso dos Estados Unidos. Perspectiva [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.01, pp.85-136. ISSN 0102-5473.

This article argues that the decadence of public education in the United States is mainly a product of contradictions imposed externally that are inherent to education in capitalist society. They have been aggravated by economic stagnation, particularly in the developed economies, and by the effects of the conservative reform movement. The article presents the suppositions of educational policy and its consequences and effects on public education - based on a historical perspective - in the context of the structural crisis of capital in the United States. It identifies the structural crisis associated to a new phase of capitalism: monopoly financial capital, which is characterized by: (1) economic stagnation in the developed capitalist economies; (2) a dramatic change in direction towards financialization, speculative bubbles as a means of economic expansion; and (3) the rapid concentration (and monopolization) of capital on a global scale. One consequence of the slow growth endemic to the developed economies is that the large corporations that dominate the current global economy are required to seek new markets for investment outside of their traditional areas of operation, which leads to the acquisition and privatization of key elements of state administration. The political counterpart of monopoly financial capital is, therefore, the neoliberal restructuring, in which the state is increasingly occupied by private interests. The paper looks at various authors in the field of economics and based on Marx presents the relation of degradation and devaluation of public education. It concludes by indicating the need for a long revolution to create, among other things, a new education linked to the community, and developed with a basis on the real needs of people.

Palabras clave : Structural Crisis; Capital; Public school Education; The United States of America.

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