Autogestão nos empreendimentos solidários de Alagoas

Abstract

The challenge facing humanity in modern times is in considering the environmental dilemmas generated by the structural weakness of society, its complex system of production and livelihood. There is no way to reconcile with the indifference, exploitation, privilege and inequities that hides behind production system degradation. On the contrary, the scarcity of natural resources and changes in the climate regime are serving to expose the whole process of social exclusion that perpetuates rooted in the structure of society. As they are issues that concern all of society, should promote a review of values and social systems, which ultimately drives the desires and individual behavior. When an individual, integrated into the collective needs of their living space, he participates on decision making processes that will define its future and its people, will be contributing more to recreate lifestyles and alternatives for the good life. This is a social demand that stimulates the study proposed here: to analyze the transforming potential of a strategy that seeks to promote the revision of values about the livelihoods of workers and their practical intervention in context of coexistence. In order to reconcile with a perspective of social transformation, the strategy should promote conditions to recognize and seek political and social participation in decision making processes that affect the community. The analysis of this strategy in the context of Alagoas is referential. The region shows the effects of policies aimed at strengthening the estates, independent of the organization of small working groups. By exposing the reality and history in Brazil, Alagoas serves as an interesting context to outline initiatives that propose to apply values compatible with the prospect of sustainable development. Moreover, values that are passed by the logic of production in capitalism, which for centuries dominated and guide the desires and behavior of each individual in our society.