As desventuras da sociedade pós-industrial: as falácias da visão determinista do desenvolvimento tecnológico

Abstract

The present work aims to present a historical-materialist argument against the academic prognosis of the coming of post-industrial society. The criticism consists in ascertaining the validity of the causes and social consequences presented by notorious authors of this approach, especially what concerns the transforming power of technology and the degree of metamorphosis of the capitalist mode of production. This document is intended to demonstrate that the transformation of industrial society into a post-industrial society has as its premises the technological determination and the overthrow of the logic of labor as a commodity, when still in capitalism, due to thecreation of jobs in the technology sector. It is understood that these two conditions were not actually achieved and lack logical consistency in the theoretical sphere. Firstly, the fundamentals and problems of the hypothesis of technological determinism are presented: technology is, as an autonomous being, that promotes social revolution. In the final half is presented a brief overview of the social and economic history of the period in which this argument arose, an exercise that aims to verify if the thesis of the deindustrialization and hypertrophy of the service economy presents empirical evidence.