The rural settlement collective COPAVI: contradictions and advance in the process of territorialization peasant

Abstract

The reflections contained in this work are part of the debate about the relevance of the agrarian reform in the context of high concentration brazilian land, with a focus on Agricultural Production Cooperative of Victoria (COPAVI), an experience of rural settlement founded in collective work under a modality of unionism that has achieved success in a few experiments, since the majority of settlers, to achieve access to land, tend to exploit it individually. Far from occupying with the opposition which is often call to ask what is the best model of settlement, the collective or individual, that the work seeks to highlight is that the model of capitalist development brazilian allowed that the ownership of the land remained under the control of a small portion of the population, with this, the struggle for agrarian reform has gained importance and representativeness. The social movements were the main responsible for spatialization and territorialization of the struggle for land, from addition emerged alternative forms of production in settlements, they are allowing the implementation of agrarian reform, kept the specificities of organized group as well as the Geography of the place where they are inserted. In the case in question, it was possible to observe that the cooperativity is an important mechanism to prevent the rent of land peasant is appropriate by capital, especially allowing for cooperative members to insert on the market without the intermediation of capital industrial or commercial. This has contributed to the strategy of polyculture, which is produces a part of food necessary for the survival of families, reducing the external dependency. The division of labor inside the settlement shows a logic that recalls the business organization, although, contradictorily is integrated to the logic of peasant labor. If for the members of peasant to the logic of business work is an essential factor for their stay in settlement, because it does not flourish their Habitus peasant,for workers likely to be associated with the proletarian tradition, the problem is precisely glimpse tasks to fulfill beyond what the contractual dimension of their condition significant proletarian, because the dedication and the donation to the settlement, often increasing the intensity and the time of work, present as determining factors for permanence in the cooperative. Then, the required partial rupture is with the peasant tradition, is with the proletarian tradition, has inluenced in decision to give up or to remain.This explains, in part, to significant turnover of families, since the foundation, about forty families have passed by the cooperative, leaving only six of the sixteen initially settled. Therefore, the internal dynamics of COPAVI is located in an ambiguous position, with ingredients of business logic of management and the logic of peasant production,enabling the convergence of different workers second a class perspective. Therefore, the COPAVI resists over time as a result of these contradictions, which sometimes present as disruptive factors to the collective work, sometimes present as strategies of resistance and strengthening.