Abstract

DZIB CAN, Ubaldo. State, Capitalism and Rural Communities. Production Process of Social Inequality In Campeche, Mexico. Desacatos [online]. 2019, n.59, pp.148-165. ISSN 2448-5144.

In this paper I explore the processes of formation of certain social groups, the State and the capital in a rural zone of South Campeche, Mexico. I argue that the State has not been the prime producer of the social life of the subjects, but part of its production processes. In such processes, the forms and categories of the State have been produced unequally by groups and classes to fix the asymmetries between them. In Campeche, the State has been the institutional result of the production of categories such as natives and settlers, Maya and mestizos, boss and client, as hierarchy. Therefore, the State should not be focused as the starting point of the analysis, nor democracy, without considering the inequalities from which it proceeds and which contributes to produce.

Keywords : State; identities; inequalities; class; boss-client relation.