Agriculturists Without Land
The following is a critique of the content of the above article and aims to open a discussion on the issue of social movements being incorporated within the system when they can not be defeated by physical (violent repression) means. Comments related to the subject are welcome and will be published as soon as possible.
MST is a 30 year old movement in Brazil. It has both class and social characteristics. It is a movement for people without land by the people without land. Brazil is the country with the largest percentage of the population having no access to land. Very counter-intuitive if you consider the vast area of jungle and unexplored forests created by the Amazon. This means that a very small group of people have converted all land to private status. This was done with a mechanism called IMF when the country first started going bankrupt 40 years ago.
This article nevertheless calls the MST movement agriculturists without land, which apart from being poorly written reveals a specific political value. What we can conclude from it is that land is perceived as means of production which utilizes specialized workers to produce for others. Something that as far as we can find about MST it is not. What is odd about the article and drew our attention is the term agriculturists, meaning agricultural workers, which if searched through the net it has not been used before in reference to MST.
