INDUSTRIAL LEADERS AND THE STATE FROM THE SECOND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN (IIPND) TO THE “ANTI-STATIZATION CAMPAIGN”

The paper deals with the relationship between the state and the industrial business community based on the theoretical framework of Poulantzas. It aims to analyze the social bases of the II PND and its political movement between 1975 and 1979. Speeches, opinion papers, and interviews with business leaders and representative organizations were analyzed. The analysis looked for references to economic policies, decrees, and government actions. It was found that external and internal transformations in capitalism and changes in economic policy repositioned classes and class fractions, making it difficult for the state to manage contradictions and build consensus. Finally, it emerged that the regime’s crisis of legitimacy in that context was neither homogeneous nor continuous for the classes and fractions in dispute.

KEYWORDS
Industrial Leaders; State; II PND; Anti-Statization Campaign; Poulantzas