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O artigo propoe uma releitura da crise do estado brasileiro sob a otica das relacoes de poder em que este sustentou sua estrategia desenvolvimentista de industrializacao. Para o autor, apesar de autoritario, o estado foi fraco frente aos interesses privados, dados o alto grau de internacionalizacao das decisoes de investimento e o tipo de pacto politico interno. Esses fatores explicariam tambem a rigidez protecionista do estado e o carater socialmente excludente da economia e da sociedade forjadas no Brasil desde os anos 30. (Novos Estud/DÜI)

This article deals with some of the elements in the present debate on the reform of the Brazilian state. It takes into account the Keynesian origin of the contemporary interventionism and the trajectory of the implementation of the national program of industrialization, which was first discussed in the 1930s, and later, in the 1940s, shared by CEPAL. It argues that the crises of the 1980s were due to the contradictory nature of the financial performance of the public sector. Finally, the author proposes some basic ideas for the reform of the state as a condition for a new strategy of development

In the center of the present crisis of Brazilian economy and society is the crisis of the state. To understand the reason, this paper argues that in Brazilian peripheral capitalism the state is not only an essential component of the process of capital accumulation, but has difficulty to play the role of an arbiter of class conflicts and competition between different interest groups. The nature of the Brazilian state has produced and reproduced increasing inequality and structural heterogeneity