Espaços de esperança : a produção associada da vida na Comunidade São Benedito remanescente dos quilombos – Poconé-MT

Abstract

Our research is based on the theoretical basis provided by Marxism, which starts from the category of work as producer of the means of life, both in material and immaterial aspects and forms of sociability (MARX, 2013). The work remains as an old form of human experience that is constantly renewed, it also questions our ways of understanding and acting on the world. For the texture of the research, we use historical materialism as a method of interpreting a concrete reality; on the assumption of Marx (2007), that the work is responsible for the human being’s humanization; in the categorization of experience formulated by Thompson (1981; 1987a; 1987b; 1987c; 2001; 1998), especially of the categories: work, experience and associated production. We are mainly interested in the reflections undertaken by Marx (2007), Marx and Engels (2007), Thompson, Tiriba (2004; 2008a; 2008b; 2014), Fischer (2009; 2011), Caetano (1996; 2008), as well as the researches carried out in the Group of Study and Research Labor and Education - GEPTE / UFMT by: Neves (2012), Guerino (2013), Azeredo (2013), Souza (2014), Silva (2015), Fonseca (2015) Ramirez (2015) and Polini (2012) to understand that, when carrying out their work, when making flour, the male and female workers of the Association of Small Farmers of the Remaining Saint Benedict Quilombos’ Communities, produce their history, their knowledge, their education, their social relations and class consciousness. Within the context of the productive restructuring of capital which was franchised in the early 1980s, the Remaining Saint Benedict Quilombo’s community resists this massification of the productive force, historically organizing itself through productive / collective associated work. In light of this resistance is the social, political and cultural relevance of the research in the Traditional Community of St. Benedict, given the historical material conditions, which are guardians of the experience of collective work. We will nominate this historical experience of "Spaces of Hope". The production of existence materialized in the collective work if we consider the historical, economic, political, social and cultural totality of the community. With this, the remnant of the experience of the collective work, being reminiscent of this organization, allowed that, in some way, the more structured collective work materialized in the constitution of Farinheira (a flour machine) in the Saint Benedict Community. Thus, the central objective is to notice the economic-cultural elements in the conformation of the experiences of the associated production historically present in the constitution of the women and men’s existence of Saint Benedict Farinheira. It is understood that the historical experience of collective work was decisive in the constitution of the associated work organization in the Farinheira. The field research was carried out with female and male workers who associated in the Farinheira of Saint Benedict Community, located in the municipality of Poconé - Mato Grosso.We aim to increase from the analyses, the valorization of the knowledge of experience, as well as to highlight the associated production as an important political-pedagogical organization that is configured as a strategy to produce life at the same time/space that questions the capitalist logic, despite being included in this context.