Luta coletiva e consciência de classe: vivências e aprendizados na experiência da ocupação Dandara

Abstract

This dissertation is the central object discuss the relevance of collective struggle in the formation of class consciousness. The study universe refers to an urban occupation, called Community Dandara, born April 9, 2009, in the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais. The action was the result of joint efforts of the Popular Brigades, the Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST) and the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT). Our goal was to identify elements in the formation of class consciousness that particular territory. To this end, we designed a theoretical and historical basis that could provide us with reading keys for the analysis of that research universe. In the first chapter we made a thorough study of the categories of class, class struggle, class consciousness and alienation, whose central axis sphere of everyday life, as a space of reproduction of social relations, and the moments of the process of formation of consciousness delimited from the Marxist tradition. Furthermore, we discuss the political emancipation and human emancipation as fields that define the intensity of the political action of the working class. In the second chapter we held a discussion on the historical and conjunctural determinations that make up the landscape of contemporary capitalism as a way to understand the impact of these determinations in the constitution of the urban question in Brazil and in social struggles for the right to the city. Here is the action of urban social movements in Brazil from one of its most significant exponents, the Movement of Homeless Workers (MTST). This was the path taken to reach the universe of research, urban occupation in Belo Horizonte. The investigative line was qualitative research, which we used as methodological tools, bibliographic research, field observation and semi - structured interview. We interviewed three representative segments of the history of occupation: occupation leaders, militant movements that articulated the occupation and the militant network of support. From the investigation identified the experience of occupation Dandara, elements that point to the development of a critical awareness among individuals. This consists in daily collective struggle through various learning enabled by the inclusion of individuals in other occupations and on various social struggles; by participation in the organic nature of the occupation, among its organizational spaces and massive activities; community processes for developing solidarity and humanizing relations. Consciousness gives the fight, identified in the experiment investigated an embryonic consciousness that elevates individuals in their immediate condition, but still had limitations for the creation of what we call consciousness itself conducive to the construction of a process of human emancipation.