Razões da sustentabilidade do Governo da Floresta: uma releitura dos aspectos políticos e econômicos do desenvolvimento do Estado do Acre

Abstract

During the 1990s, preceding the beginning of the XXI century, a political and economic maxima of double meaning entered the mainstream and become a faultless premise of human sociability interpretation due to its broad support from academic circles, namely: i) the enactment of policy extinction and thus of the state as regulator of social organization; and ii) the reassertion of the bargaining market primacy expressed by the neoliberal tenet, as the main orientation of social existence among men. Confronted with this general assumption, this research investigates, within the development field, how one could explain the growing importance of the Acre State’s actions in the direction of regional development within the period that prescribed state sphere disappearance? Furthermore, how was it possible for the Forest’s Government to promote virtual improvements in the material conditions of social life; while it was loudly and clearly advocated the prominence of purely economic interest in relation to the social goals of meeting the collective demands of human orderings? Finally, considering both the discrediting of the political character of social life and the precariousness of the material conditions of life on a planetary scale; what would have justified the enormous legitimacy of the Forest’s Government in face of the visible distortion of political power as an essential tool to guide societies towards overcoming their needs? On the contrary of what has been stated, the experience of Acre establishment has shown the persistent coexistence of the economic and political realms in the Acre state and market formation. At the point that, if throughout all of Acre’s historic pathway we can find material prosperity able to meet the growing needs of the entire local population, it was because of the continuous tense and conditioning double movement described by Karl Polanyi: on the one side, there is the political action towards social protection; and, on the other side, the impulse towards economic development. The Forest’s Government – the subject of the present study, corresponds to the output of one of those moments in which the political power was closely intertwined with the economic interest. If there was a simultaneous restoring of economical dynamic and social conquests, it was due to the degree in which these interests clashed, and\or adjusted from within the forces relation of the economic politics of the Acre State.