Estado, planejamento regional e classes sociais no nordeste

Abstract

Interrelations between the State, the planning process and social classes are considered with the objective of conceptualizing the politics of agricultural planning in Brazil and the northeastern region. Interrelations between state planning and social classes in the Northeast are analysed in more depth in particular those developed between regional hegemonic groups and the politics of rural and agricultural development A central thesis of the study is that the unification of a national capitalist economy under a ruling class centered in the Center Southern region eroded the basis of regional and local power to the point of limiting their autonomy to parochial questions that do not cause any potential obstacle to accumulation. Notwithstanding regional and sectorial planning be determined at a central level and in connection with objectives of a central ruling class, at an executive level regional and local interests are able to obtain some benefits. Thus the  interests of a central ruling class of modernization and economic integration of the agricultural sector and of regional and local groups of retaining their traditional power appear in conflict Under this perspective agricultural and rural development policies in relation to the northeastern region are reviewed.