Na contramão do neoliberalismo: sem-terra e piqueteiros

Abstract

This article addresses, fundamentally, the limits and political-ideological potentialities of two important social Latin-American movements: the land-less (MST) in Brazil and the picketers in Argentina. The appropriation of the emancipating politics by the social movements enables the social relations and the relations of production in the MST settlements or in the picketers’ neighborhoods to gain new political and ideological dimensions. For each of these movements we discuss here the “democratic inventions” (direct democracy, horizontality, gender equality, etc.) of which they are the leading actors, as well as their limits in face of the class character of their social bases, that is, they are semi-employed (landless) and unemployed (landless and picketers).