Abstract

BANDERA LOPEZ, Noel. Manufacturing legitimacy in capitalism: Parasite-King. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2023, vol.31, n.62, 013.  Epub May 31, 2024. ISSN 0188-7653.  https://doi.org/10.18504/pl3162-013-2023.

This article approaches the capitalist system from the never enough used analysis of concealment and its creation of legitimacy, presenting the thesis of capitalism as ParasiteKing. Based on authors such as Arrighi and Braudel, the historical object treated is the hegemonic system originated when economy stopped being subsidiary and became top ratio, beyond official political power. It is proposed a methodology by stages which contains the circle of evolution of capitalism through permanent variations: 1) election of successive main organisms colonized; 2) ideological-antigenic masking processes; 3) transformations caused in the social body; 4) propagation through vehicular structures; 5) decay of main organism, and 6) crisis and reorganization of the system.

Keywords : capitalism; Manufacturing Consent; ideology; legitimacy; globalization; political economy; hegemony.

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