A Agroecologia do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST): Produção Econômico-Política ou Jean Valjean Adentra a Barricada

Abstract

This research aimed at the agroecology’s production as politics in the Landless Rural Workers Movement’s experiences. More specifically the particular relation of the agroecoly construction as possibility of overcome in social disputes under which the movement is inserted. In order to respond the research problem: agroecology produces collective political consciousness at the MST? Cast around in the Antonio Gramsci’s tradition of historical dialectical materialism constituted as a philosophy of praxis, this work sought a form of analysis about the collective political consciousness’ three levels: economic-corporate; ethical-political and collective political consciousness. The objective was to decipher the leap towards the new. Specifically intended to characterize the agroecology’s signification of MST through official document analysis from the Movement or institutions that the Movement signs together since the official entrance of agroecology in 2000; to present and to characterize the political products that composes the Movement’s territoriality; and evaluate the limits and possibilities of the Movement’s agroecology production. Agroecology is a category that within the mediations of Latin America is headed by NGOs and social movements. In the Brazilian reality, the MST behaves and works as a political party capable to articulate unifying forms of broader social groups. The Jean Valjean’s metaphor used in this research takes the reader from the construction comprehension of one of the most emblematic characters from XIX century by the writer Victor Hugo, to establish a relation with the agroecology entrance in MST, mainly on a specific episode where the protagonist enters a barricade built by an insurrection at Paris’ streets changing his history and his future. The agroecology entrance in the Movement enables a political strategic change form at the claims, (re)production of the rural workers and peasant economy. The possibilities of the agroecological productions are a form of metamorphosis from the political products that were already composed in the Movement. An example is the agrarian reform struggle that changes to a new political product, the agroecological agrarian reform after the agroecology entrance and phases inside MST. In general, the agroecology presents three different moments in the MST since its entrance in 2000. Within this correlation was possible to identify collective political consciousness in the ultimate stage from the strategic way taken by the Movement making possible the aggregation of different social groups attached to the peasant production, developing a form of hegemony and aiming the association on the labor field whether in the provision of services between settlement or between families in the field. In this scenario, the greatest challenge that appears nowadays is a way of construction of a structured form to make the logic settlement-Movement work at the production towards a transition to a generalized agroecology. Keywords: Agroecology. MST. Territoriality. Agrarian Question. Politics.