REVISITING INTERPRETATIONS ON PEASANTRY: CONSTRUCTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES OF AUTONOMY

Abstract

This article discusses elements of the peasant condition in Brazil. There have been rescued some elements of the peasantry theory, since the currents that pointed to the end of this social category and, conversely, those who bet on the reconstruction and adaptation of Brazilian peasants nowadays. In this balance, we discuss the thesis of isolation and racial disability, the peasantry as a social class, the dependence of farmers on the relationships with the market and the state, and the peasantry as a part of the subsistence economy sector in Brazil. All this to state its position historically secondary and subordinated on the plans of economical development, but which increasingly deserves social recognition.