Politics and agrarianism in Brazil

this text recreates the discursive elements of the brazilian communist party's (pcb) peasant sindicalism consolidated in the pre-1964 era. the author argues that this agrarianism may shed light on the current discussion about the expectations of intellectuals and mediators in relation to the performance of the landless in the brazilian agrarian reform. the work of caio prado jr. and alberto passos guimar？es is revisited, with the question of the weakness of the peasantry being one of the key points. the text also seeks to associate these classical ideas with luiz werneck vianna's interpretation of the landless mobilization of the mid-1990s as the emblematic social conquest of brazilian political democracy, notably after the enactment of the 1988 constitution.