Generation and maintenance of poverty based on the ideology of development through the eyes of Milton Santos

Abstract

The debate on development has engendered different thinkers around the world and in Brazil it was no different. This article will analyze how Milton Santos sees the relationship between planning, development and poverty in Brazil. Development is seen as a term loaded with meaning and ideology, associated with changes and transformations, which are generally presented as positive. Milton Santos, however, argues that there is a relationship between development, planning and poverty and that for these relationships to exist, specific geopolitical conditions are necessary, for the institutionalization of ideas and the construction of fables, which will account for situations for dissemination and deepening of wealth accumulation relations, which occur with the generation and complexity of poverty. For such discussions, the text is divided into two parts, first approaching development as a fable and, later, as a fallacy.

Key words: Ideology; Planning; Transformations.