Abstract
In the article we discuss Clóvis Moura’s contributions to the critique of War on Drugs (GD) in the present stage of Brazilian dependent capitalism. Retrieving his analysis of Brazilian social formation and the centrality of racial issue, we learn how GD is produced as a barrier mechanism for black people, from its most evident facet, through mechanisms of criminalization, imprisonment and extermination, to the way in which it links to other economic, political and ideological dam mechanisms (being shaped by them and shaping them). In this, corroborates the historical construction of black people as bad citizens - in this case, as drug dealers. Furthermore, we discuss how Mouras’ sociology of black praxis allows us to apprehend - and foster - the passage of black people as an object of GD to political agents of its critique and overcoming, linking antiprohibitionism to class fight, oriented towards antiracism and anticapitalism.
Keywords:
Clóvis Moura; Black praxis sociology; War on Drugs; Racism; Brazilian social formation