Agrarian question and Latin America: brief contributions to an urgent debate/Questao agraria e America Latina: breves aportes para um debate urgente

• Published in: Revista Direito e Práxis Vol. 9; no. 3; p. 1694
• Main Author: Traspadini, Roberta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro- Uerj 01.09.2018
• Subjects: América Latina
• ISSN: 2179-8966; 2179-8966
• DOI: 10.1590/2179-8966/2018/36657

This article presents some initial contributions on (re) thinking the centrality of the agrarian question in the histories and struggles of Latin America past and present, from a Marxian and Marxist referential. Three moments will be worked out, namely: 1) Abya Yala x Latin America; 2) Latin America and dependent capitalist state; 3) Latin America and the various phases of the ideology of development. The main objective is to reinforce how the agrarian question has always been at the heart of the social function of Latin America and the Caribbean in the general dynamics of capital production and reproduction, even in times of contemporary discussions about the general problems of the peripheral landscapes of the 21st century. The main question of this text is: If Latin America is a territorial construction demarcated by the colonial invasion in century XVI, what is the function of the agrarian question from the logics inherent in this mercantile dynamics for more than five centuries?