Os fundamentos sócio-históricos do processo de criminalização do movimento dos trabalhadores sem terra no Brasil

Abstract

This work has as main objective to analyze the social, historical, political and ideological fundamentals featuring in the current context, of the Landless Workers Movement‘ (MST) process of criminalization in Brazil. This analysis was based on research with the documents relating to the state of Rio Grande do Sul during the tenure of the governed Yeda Crusius, especially during the years 2007 and 2008. This analysis is buoyed by the particularities of the Brazilian social formation, in particular the formation of dependent capitalism and the state. There is also the study of the characteristics of the agrarian question in Brazil and the construction of the struggle for land reform as a fundamental social right by the peasant movements, especially with the emergence and trajectory of the MST, from 1984 until the present. Our study is supported by the critical approach of the elements that constitute the National Security Doctrine in Latin America, with a focus on the analysis competition for corporate projects in civil society and how this Doctrine precepts are spread in the current context of class struggle in Brazil, composing, throughout the 2000s, a fundamental part of the process of criminalization. The construction of this work uses the Marxist tradition as a theoretical-methodological and ideo-political reference, especially the classic categories of Marx, Lenin and Gramsci. Moreover, we also refer to Brazilian social thinkers, classical and contemporary, in the study of national reality and its specifics. The research takes as reference the criminalization process occurred in Rio Grande do Sul through actions and the State Prosecutor of the Military Brigade of this state against the MST, demonstrating the relevance of the National Security Doctrine and the complexity of the relationship between civil society and political society.