Associated Labor and Production in the Age of Barbarism: Education Beyond Capital

Foreword
Preface for the English and Italian Editions
Introduction
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
1 Labour as a Vital Need and Alienated Labour: Contributions to the Debate on the Relationship Between Labour and an Education Beyond Capital
	Introduction
	The Ontology of Social Beings: The Difference Between Humans and Other Animals
	Alienated Labour
	The Positive Overcoming of the Alienation of Labour Entails a Need for the Flourishing of Associated Labour and an Education Beyond Capital
	In Conclusion …
	Bibliography
2 The Foundations of Self-Managed Socialism: The Contribution of István Mészáros
	The Return to Self-Management, Cooperativism and Associativism in the late Twentieth Century
	A Society Beyond Capital: Starting the Debate
	The Snail and Its Shell: A Critique of Ownership of the Means of Production
	Self-Management: for a New Social Division of Labour and a New Type of Participation in Strategic Decisions for Society
	For a Radical Restructuring of the Productive Forces
	Socialist Planning of Production
	Final Considerations
	Bibliography
3 Brazilian Unions and the Struggle Against the Entrepreneurial-Military Dictatorship (1964–1985)
	The 1964 Coup and Increasing Repression from 1968 Onwards
	The Military-Civilian Dictatorship and Union Resistance
	Bibliography
4 Manifestations of Barbarism
	The Growth of Child Labour
	The Return of Work Analogous to Slavery, the Violence of Underemployment and Structural Unemployment and Alienated Labour
	The Situation of the Outsourced Working Class in Brazil
	The Manifestations of Barbarism in Schools and the Misery of São Paulo’s Educational Policy
	The Historical Need for an Education Beyond Capital
	Bibliography
5 An Overview of Urban Associated Labour in Brazil: Positive and Negative Aspects of Self-Management in the Productive Microcosm
	Introduction: The Structural Crisis of Capital and the Embryos of Anti-Capital Struggles in Latin America
		Worker-Recovered Companies (ERTs, from the Acronym in Portuguese)
	Cooperative Housing Efforts and Civil Construction Cooperatives: From FUCVAM to the Dom Hélder Câmara Commune
	The Collection and Sorting of Recyclable Materials: A Field for Associated Labour?
	Some Conclusions: From Embryos of Associated Labour to the Struggle for the Construction of a Society Beyond Capital
	Bibliography
6 Cooperation and Workers’ Cooperatives in São Paulo’s MST: An Analysis of the Actions of the Capitalist State that Block the Educational Potential of Associated Labour
	Introduction
	From the coffee complex to the expansion of Agribusiness in the State of São Paulo
	Conceiving Cooperation in the MST
	Cooperation in the São Paulo MST in Face of the Capitalist State
	Cooperation and Cooperativism in the MST of São Paulo
	Final Considerations: Islands/Settlements Surrounded by a Green Sea of Sugarcane and Eucalyptus
	Bibliography
7 Associated Labour as an Educational Principle: Notes from Worker-Recovered Factories in Brazil and Argentina
	Introduction: The Advance of Barbarism in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
	Some Differences Between Anti-Capital Struggles and Localised Struggles
	Associated Labour as an Educational Principle in Recovered Factories: Some Positive Aspects
	The Tendency to Accommodate the Recovered Factories Within the Order of Capital: Some Negative Aspects
	Qualification Projects for Recovered Factories
	“Senai Does Not Serve Us”: Notes of an Education and “Training” Beyond Capital
	Final Remarks
	Bibliography
8 The National Training Centre in the Solidarity Economy: The Contradictions of Self-Management Education of the Solidarity Economy Movement
	Introduction
	The Solidarity Economy Movement and Associated Labour
	The National Training Centre for Solidarity Economy (CFES Nacional)
	Associated Labour as an Educational Principle and the Historical Need for an Education Beyond Capital
	Final Considerations
	Bibliography
9 “Green Revolution”, Agroecology and the MST Agroecology Schools
	Introduction
	Capital’s Agriculture Campaign and Destructive Production: The Political Economy of the “Green Revolution”
	Agroecology in the MST: Beyond the Green Agenda
	The Creation of the Agroecology Schools
	Agroecology in the Curriculum of the MST Vocational Schools
	Final Thoughts
	Bibliography
10 Notes on Social Movements and Education: Challenges of the Struggle Between Capital and Labour in Brazil
	Introduction
	Theories About Social Movements
	Social Movements and Class Struggle
	Social Movements and Political Education in the Brazilian Reality
	Final Thoughts
	Bibliography
Bibliography
Index