The politics of agricultural cooperativism in Brazil: A case study of the landless rural worker movement (MST)

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Wilder Robles
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Abstract

This paper examines peasant-led agricultural cooperative formation in Brazil from a political economy perspective. It takes as a point of reference the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). The paper identifies the MST’s main periods of cooperative formation within their particular contexts. Each of these periods oriented and, eventually, reoriented the MST’s overall cooperative efforts. The MST linked agrarian reform and agricultural cooperativism in order to advance political and economic democracy. While the MST’s pursuit of political and economic democracy took place within unfavorable conditions, the MST was able to build a transformative cooperative project capable of reducing structural poverty, enhancing political citizenship, and promoting environmental stewardship. In spite of these achievements, the long-term sustainability of this cooperative project depends significantly on the MST’s capacity to overcome structural barriers and, most importantly, obtain long-term support from state and non-state actors.

巴西农业合作主义政治:以无地农民工运动为例
本文从政治经济学的角度考察了巴西农民主导的农业合作社的形成。它以无地农民工运动(MST)为参照点。本文在特定的背景下确定了MST合作形成的主要时期。这些时期中的每一个都是MST整体合作努力的导向,并最终重新导向。MST将土地改革和农业合作主义联系起来,以推进政治和经济民主。虽然MST对政治和经济民主的追求是在不利的条件下进行的,但MST能够建立一个能够减少结构性贫困、增强政治公民意识和促进环境管理的变革性合作项目。尽管取得了这些成就,但该合作项目的长期可持续性在很大程度上取决于MST克服结构性障碍的能力,最重要的是,能否获得国家和非国家行为体的长期支持。
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