Abstract
This article situates the Amazon in the historical process of formation of the agrarian extractive frontier, based on the dynamics of the appropriation of land and territory, resource extraction and labor exploitation, which began in the colonial period, shaping the capitalist development in Brazil. The analysis was done considering three main aspects: i) the formation of the agrarian extractive frontier and the insertion of the Amazon in this historical process; ii) the extractive nature of neoliberal economy, based on the concept of accumulation by dispossession; iii) the understanding of the Amazon's underdevelopment, based on the rupture of ecological, social and productive systems, caused by successive extractive cycles that marked the region's insertion in the global economy. Such processes opened the Amazon for a wide spreading appropriation of resources and the dispossession of communities, fulfilling demands for the accumulation of agrarian extractive capital, in a historical context of radicalization of neoliberalism.
Keywords:
Agrarian extractive capital; Extractive neoliberalism; Extractive agrarian frontier; Amazon