"The debate on "sustainable development", ecosocialism, agroecology and the production of healthy food is increasing in Europe and in the world. This book depicts peasants' struggles for the resistance to the advance of destructive production. It also socializes the results of research, which shows us the pressage of alternative forms of labour, which are based upon agroecology, in cooperation and corporativism besides the emergence of agroecology schools of one of the main social movements of the present time: the Landless Movement"--
List of Figures and Tables
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
1The Current State of Primitive Accumulation: Land Theft and Enclosures
in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
1Introduction
2So-Called Primitive Accumulation
3The Enclosure and Theft of Land in Brazil in the 20th and 21st Centuries
4The Commodification of All Spheres of Life and Struggles of Resistance
against Primitive Accumulation
2Destructive Production and Agroecology
1Introduction
2Green Revolution or Green Con? The Advancement of Destructive Forces in
the Countryside
3Patents as a New Form of Colonialism
4Rescue of Historical Experiences of Alternative Agriculture: Clues to the
Understanding of Agroecology
5The Concept of Agroecology and the Need for an Agroecological Transition
6The Technical Assistance Required for Agroecology
7The Heterogeneity of Agroecology: From Market Niches to Systemic Rupture
3Sustainable Development, Agroecology and Ecosocialism
1Introduction
2Sustainable Development and its Limits
3Technological Dependence and Neo-colonial Reversal: Effects on Commodity
Exports and Brazils Role in the International Division of Labour
4The Contributions of Michael Lowy and Istvįn Mészįros to the Ecosocialist
Transition
4Green Revolution in Brazil, Rural Extension and the Fight to Establish
mst
1Introduction
2The Green Revolution in Brazil
3Importing the Model of Rural Extension
4The Fight to Establish mst
5Perspectives and Dimensions of Agroecoloy
1Introduction
2The Perspective of the North-American thought: For Sustainable Processes
in Agriculture
3Resistance and Existence: Agroecology in Spanish thought
4Agroecology in the Brazilian Scenario
5Agroecology from the Perspective of mst and Social Struggles
6The Dimensions of Agroecology
7The Holistic Approach
8The Participative Approach
9Educational Dimension
6Transnational Corporations, the msts Agroecological Agenda and
Agroecology Schools
1Introduction
2Monster Corporations and the Fetishism of the Green Revolution
3Fights for Agroecology and the msts Agroecological Agenda
4Class and Gender Issues in Agroecological Struggles
5The Peoples Agrarian Reform and the Construction of the Revolution in
Latin America
6Educational Resistance: The Experiences of the mst Agroecology Centres
7The Political Economy of the Green Revolution, Agroecology and the
mst Agroecology Schools
1Introduction
2Capitals Agriculture Campaign and Destructive Production: The Political
Economy of the Green Revolution
3Agroecology in the mst: Beyond the Green Agenda
4The Creation of the Agroecology Schools
5Agroecology in the Curriculum of the mst Vocational Schools
6Final Thoughts
8Cooperation and Workers Cooperatives in Sćo Paulo-mst: Actions of
the Capitalist State that Block the Educational Potential of Associated
Labour
1Introduction
2From the Coffee Complex to the Expansion of Agribusiness in the State of
Sćo Paulo
3Conceiving Cooperation in the mst
4Cooperation of the Sćo Paulo mst in Face of the Capitalist State
5Cooperation and Cooperativism in the mst of Sćo Paulo
6Final Considerations: Islands/Settlements Surrounded by a Green Sea of
Sugarcane and Eucalyptus
9The Rescue of Labour School Principles by the mst and Their Influence
on Agroecology Schools
1Introduction
2The Re-release of Books from the First Phase of Soviet Pedagogy by the
mst
3The River That Divides the Pedagogies of Capital and the Pedagogies of
Labour
4Fundamentals of the Labour School
4.1The Single School of Labour
4.2Polytechnic Schools
4.3Self-Direction
4.4Thematic Complexes
5The Bureaucratization of the Russian Revolution and Its Educational
Contingencies
6Experimenting with the Principles of the Labour School in the msts
Agroecology Schools
7The Urgency of an Education Beyond Capital
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Henrique Tahan Novaes is an Economics graduate from the Araraquara campus of UNESP (2001), and has a masters degree (2005) and a doctorate (2010) in Scientific and Technological Policies from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His dissertation was the embryo of the book O fetiche da tecnologia - a experiźncia das fįbricas recuperadas (Expressćo Popular-Fapesp, 2007 and 2010, 3rd edition by Lutas Anticapital Press, also published in Argentina). His doctoral thesis became the book Reatando um fio interrompido: a relaēćo universidade-movimentos sociais na América Latina (Expressćo Popular-Fapesp, 2012, 2nd edition by the Lutas Anticapital Press, also published in 2016, in Argentina). He has also written the book Mundo do trabalho associado e embriões de educaēćo para além do capital (Lutas Anticapital Press, 2008). He has been a professor at the School of Philosophy and Science of UNESP, in the city of Marķlia, since 2011, and a professor at the Graduate Studies Programme in Education since 2013. Joćo Henrique Souza Pires received his PhD in Education from the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences of Unesp/Marķlia (2021), and his Master in Education from the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences of Unesp/Marķlia (2016). He completed a postgraduate specialization in Social Technology at the Federal University of Latin American Integration - UNILA (2012) and in Public Management from the Federal University of Tocantins (2012). Graduated in Letters from Paulista University (2023).
