A trajetoria politica do MST : da crise da ditadura ao periodo neoliberal

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2005

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This present thesis analyses the political route of the Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST) since its emergence, within a conjuncture characterized by the military dictatorship crisis, until the end of the neoliberal government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, in 2002. The overall objective, therefore, is to examine the fight for land and for an agrarian reform undertaken by the MST in different political conjunctures, in other words, to make a reflection on the reasons that could explain the emergence of the movement, beginning with the land occupation resumption in the south of the country in the late 70?s; to analyze the factors that made possible the expansion of the MST throughout the whole national territory and its effective consolidation during the Sarney government; to discuss the repression that came over the landless workers during the Collor government, in a conjuncture characterized by the beginning of the implantation of the neoliberal policies in Brazil and, finally, to make some reflections on the reasons of the expansion of the movement during the first mandate of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, as well as on the explanatory factors for the land fight reflux during the second mandate of this government. If the overall goal of this study is to analyze the MST?s political route, the specific goal is to explain the political importance that this movement had acquired in the 90?s during Fernando Henrique Cardoso?s government, in a conjuncture that was adverse to other popular social movements. The MST?s growth, up from 1995, was made possible thanks to the conjunction of various factors, within which are to be highlighted: the apparently democratic nature of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso?s government; the evil social effects of the neoliberal policies which, by provoking the crash of thousands of small agricultural producers and the rise of the rural and urban unemployment, made possible to the MST to recruit that marginalized crowd and expand its social basis; the absence of the ?economical embarrassment? among the landless (fear for demission, for unemployment, etc.), a factor that eases the mobilization of these workers; and finally, the MST?s anti-capitalist ideology, which allowed the movement to resist the neoliberal hegemony. Not only did the MST grow up from 1995 but it also converted itself into the main political opposition focus to the government, what generated in the government (during the second mandate of Fernando Henrique Cardoso), a strong repression over the movement, aiming to politically isolate and trap it

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movimentos sociais agricultura neoliberalism reforma agraria - brasil social movements tenure of land agrarian reform mst posse da terra neoliberalismo agriculture

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