This essay seeks to reveal the contradictory character of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC, in its acronym in Portuguese), the main instrument of the Brazilian development model of the last decade, which attempts to combine an apparent national autonomy for strategic settings, with adjustments of integration to the global economic system. However, the resumption of the initiative of economic planning and public investment by the State lead to a development model based on appropriation of nature, and generate a sparsely diverse productive network, dependent of international insertion that considers Brazil as a supplier of raw materials, leading to the new progressive extractivism as advanced by Gudynas (2009). To understand the integration of the market logic to the interests of the State and the role of management in this construction, the text drawn from the Marxist Theory of Dependence, especially as in Marini (2005) and Osorio’s (2012a, 2012b) discussions about the subordinated position of peripheral economies, combined with the mechanisms of capital accumulation and labor exploitation. Furthermore, it is discussed the epistemic coloniality for development management, taken as the solution for the modernization and development, to the extent that it produces a subordinated integration with the global economy.
Growth Acceleration Program; Development; Marxist Theory of Dependency; Coloniality; Overexploitation of Labor; Pattern of Capital Reproduction