Derrubando cerca, plantando liberdade: ocupar o latifúndio, produzir felicidade!? Classe e consciência de classe: limites e desafios impostos aos assentados do Novo Horizonte II

Abstract

This paper deals with the limitations and challenges facing land reform settlers, recently installed in the City of St. Margaret South, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Its main objective is to discuss how far the understanding of the concept of social class and of class consciousness is able to maintain, or represent a resistance, when the peasants are placed in situations different from those found during the period they were camped. The circumstances in which the settlers faced as a result of capitalist society in which they belong, are numerous and involve appeals from the intense and unbridled consumption, as well as how to produce goods in a clash between those who defend the capitalist mode production and those who advocate a new form of production that does not depend on the policies of the capital. This creates internal conflicts between the settlers, as well as tensions with the municipal authorities and local people, especially farmers. This creates internal conflicts between the settlers, as well as tensions with the municipal authorities and local people, especially farmers. One of the tools for the formation of class consciousness and identity of interests and membership education and peasant is from this perspective, these citizens, subjects are active participants in social movement had the support of itinerant school they conquered, and it, their educators and students who showed as a link propellant ideas, political awareness. This is a qualitative study of dialectical approach also presents principles of participatory research, the understanding that should be the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity, that is, the facts and data. The reality must have the perception that the population involved is this reality so that the facts and positions should be part of the findings and aspirations. Concludes that education plays a fundamental role both in training, (re) building of class consciousness and stratification of the peasantry, as the youth, children and ad.