ABSTRACT

In order to analyze peasantry resistance in Brazil, is necessary to understand a priori the

contradictory process of development of capitalism in the Brazilian countryside, which,

in its development, brought within it the reproduction of non-capitalist relations of

production, a fact that explains the existence and permanence Of the peasantry in the

country. This current of thought defends the creation and recreation of the peasantry

within the capitalist relations, so that there is a growth of both the peasantry and the

latifundia, a dialectical process that constitutes the agrarian reality of the state of Mato

Grosso. The modern capitalist state plays a central role in the production of rural space

and the expanded reproduction of capital, revealing in its interior the contradictions and

conflicts derived from the class struggle, yielding now yes, but not strategically to the

confrontation of the workers' struggle in the countryside , Mediating the conflicts

between classes, but for the interests of the ruling class, unless pressed by mass

organizations. The aim of the present research is to analyze peasant resistance in the

context of modernized capitalist production relations in the set of state actions, seeing it

as the director of capitalist relations in the countryside and, at the same time, mediator of

the existing conflicts of struggle for the land. The methodology was qualitative,

involving a bibliographical review, search for secondary data and, mainly, fieldwork, in

which the elements of the text were studied from the reality itself and from the speeches

collected. Mental maps were elaborated by some settlers representing their processes of

experiences and experiences. As part of the results, it was observed that the peasants

settled in the 14 de Agosto Settlement, from Campo Verde / MT, present a rich

historical process of struggles and resistances until the consolidation of the settlement.

The daily forms of resistance are diverse, such as peasant production, family labor,

accessory work, leases and capitalist insertion in the territory of the settlement, which

despite the contradictions are (re) created in the form of non-capitalist relations to

reproduce As a class within capitalism. But, they still point out several challenges in

relation to the generation of income that they deem necessary for the reproduction of life

in the settlement.