By Wilder Robles, Henry Veltmeyer
The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships between peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and cooperativism in modern Brazil. particularly, it addresses the demanding situations dealing with peasant events of their pursuit of political and monetary democracy. The publication takes as some extent of reference the Landless Rural employees flow (MST), the main dynamic strength for revolutionary social swap in Latin the USA this present day. Robles and Veltmeyer argue that the MST has successfully practiced the politics of land career and the politics of agricultural cooperativism to consolidate the meals sovereignty version of agrarian reform. although, the quick growth of the corporate-led agribusiness version, that's supported through Brazil's political elite, has undermined the MST's efforts. The authors argue that regardless of excessive peasant mobilization, agrarian reform is still an unfulfilled political promise in Brazil.
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From this theoretical perspective, the MST is conceptualized as a class-based movement seeking fundamental structural change. At the micro theoretical level, the authors use the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) to examine the external and internal forces that shape, and reshape, cooperative formation within the MST settlements. Although, this approach is notorious and has been criticized for ignoring the broader structural context of the development issues addressed, it is nevertheless useful for evaluating the shortcomings involved in cooperative formation, including internal conflicts, ideological differences, limited material resources, and lack of access to technology and markets.
First, the capitalist class promoted the restructuring of capital-labor relations as necessary to increase productivity. The changes drastically curtailed the so-called “excessive power” of organized labor and constrained wage labor. Second, the capitalist class stimulated the separation of technology-intensive and labor-intensive operations within the core Rural Development and Social Movements 39 of the capitalist system. Transnational corporations started a process of relocating labor-intensive production operations to countries with abundant cheap labor, particularly Asia.
3). Does this mean that the struggle for agrarian reform is over? Far from it—the landless peasants are as determined as ever to continue the struggle. They are aware that this is a daunting task that requires further concerted and ongoing popular mobilization. The Central Focus of the Book This book focuses on the forces that have shaped peasant mobilization, agrarian reform, and cooperative formation in Brazil. Its context is the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or Landless Rural Workers Movement9 (MST), which is the largest and most dynamic force for progressive social change in Latin America today.