MST and Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes: formation, communication and political socialization¹

This paper presents results of research about the political formation of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Movement of Landless Rural Workers - MST) from the communication and socialization with the urban worker. We used the dialectic method and applied qualitative techniques, semi-structured interviews with MST leaders, and anthropological research at the Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (Florestan Fernandes National School – ENFF). ENFF, founded by the MST in Guararema, State of São Paulo, in 2005, is one of the main spaces for the political formation of social movements in Latin America. It is also a strategic space for the formation, communication and political socialization between the working class from the countryside and the city. ENFF has the potential to be a space of building popular hegemony through the sociability between social movements from the countryside and the city, through common symbolic production and universalizing education, yet it is still a place where political hegemony and culture of the MST prevail.

Keywords
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Movement of Landless Rural Workers – MST); Political formation; Popular hegemony; Field and city