THE PEASANT´S STRUGGLE AND THE FOOD ACQUISITION PROGRAMME: A CRITICAL LOOK
Name: MARINA DE ABREU QUEIROZ
Publication date: 11/04/2019
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| PAULO NAKATANI | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: Under the auspices of neoliberalism, the restructuring movement of the globalized and imperialist capitalism transformed the reproduction of the dependency condition in latin american countries. The capital-labour relations continues to be central, just as Marx advocated. However, new political players and complex categories appeared in this economic structure. The peasant social movements emerged as great political actors of the class struggle in the globalization period by contesting the capital and organizing itself around the development of new social and production relations rooted in the concept of food sovereignty. In
this context, the Food Acquisition Programme (PAA) was set up in 2003 in association with the Zero Hunger Project and the food security concept, and the PAA showed itself to be one of the main programs that materializes the human right to food in Brazil. The PAA, which is a governmental policy, needs to be studied under two perspectives of the class struggle. First as a recommended policy by the imperialist organisms to guarantee societys cohesion and prevent the growing numbers of social phenomena originated from the extreme inequality provoked by the hegemonic economic system. And second
as an attainment of the peasants struggle to the right of land (Land
Reform) and the land struggle for permanence (for the social and economic reproduction of the peoples). This, however, raises a question: what is the face of imperialism in this new phase? And most importantly, who are the peasants that appear in the 21st century as a central political figure in the anti-globalization movement? Well search in the history, under the dialectical and historical materialism perspective, for answers and questionings on both sides of the class struggle, that recreates itself in the dialectical movement of capitalism. With these considerations addressed, we can ask ourselves if the PAA is an achievement (from the struggle of the peasant movement) or if its a recommendation (of the imperialist organisms). Or even if, according to the dialectical method, both are valid questions: one truth doesnt invalidate the other, but rather they are related and complementary.
