Agrarian struggle and desire equipment in the context of the reactivation of the Uruguayan sugar industry: A Marxist-desiring approach

In this article, I analyze how the agrarian demands of a rural workers’ union in the Northern-Uruguay were managed within the framework of a government development policy whose objective was to convert its beneficiaries into efficient sugarcane producers. From a perspective that combines the thinkin...

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Autor principal: Martins Moraes, Alex
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/7521
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Sumario:In this article, I analyze how the agrarian demands of a rural workers’ union in the Northern-Uruguay were managed within the framework of a government development policy whose objective was to convert its beneficiaries into efficient sugarcane producers. From a perspective that combines the thinking of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari with the Marxian analysis of credit systems, I examine the conflicting convergence between agrarian struggle and rural development, conceptualizing it as an unstable ‘collective equipment’ [équipement collectif] that captures social desire. Through participant observation and in interlocution with the beneficiaries of development policies, I examine the economic consequences of desire equipment and indicate its conditions of (im)possibility, as well as the ways to overcome it politically. I conclude by reflecting on the primacy of desire over any capture process that aims to order and functionalize it.