The State in the MST's Strategic Political Plan: brief considerations on the approximation with the State executive during the Lula Government

Abstract

This paper aims to briefly discuss the relationship between the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and the State, which is presented in the strategic-political plan of this social movement based on the agrarian reform programs it conceived throughout its historical trajectory. It is worth remembering, in such programs there is not only its conception and proposal for land socialization or agrarian reform, but also the strategic political programmatic that it projects for society as a whole is expressed. Thus, an approximate study of some agrarian reform programs elaborated by the MST was carried out here, in which it analyzes and makes considerations about the relationship it sews with the State. It was observed that the state apparatus appears as an important mediation for the MST, either because of the immediate pressure to carry out the agrarian reform, or because, from a more general point of view, the State assumes fundamental relevance for the viability of the political project it conceives. However, the same state that sought rapprochement during the Lula government served as an institutional foundation for the reproduction of capitalism dependent on Brazil, which has a direct correlation with the agrarian question.