Insurreição no campo

Abstract

Medeiros Braga, when writing about the Insurrection in the countryside, brings his experience in the countryside to his novel, and a critical look at those who produce and are the protagonists of its history: the workers in the countryside. Even though the narration shows the splendor of the countryside in comparison to the urban, the starting point of the text is to bring to light the process of impoverishment of the country man, as the primary cause the land issue, as well as the unequal exchange that leads to the extortion of the wealth produced by this class. To reverse this situation, the workers went through an intense process of awareness, at the same time as the landowners, the bad politicians, the false union leaders, the brutality of the police and the partiality of the justice system. Including “democracy” itself, since the author believes that it only exists to maintain imperialism and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few and the domination of power in the hands of the bourgeoisie. If one of these elements is in danger, democracy finds itself as an obstacle, since it is thus being pushed out. Despite these difficulties, the workers had to fight, using artifices such as the destruction of boards, union real estate agents, they strengthened the associations, they began to participate in public policy, they gained the full support of the church and some media outlets and they set out to fight, as the author rightly puts it, “it is the essence of life, and that “its absence takes away the flavor of victory”. Thus, the workers being aware and organized in unions and associations, and still counting on the support of several mayors, they set out to consolidate their objectives. However, the conservative forces managed to strengthen themselves with the arrival of federal troops who came with the determination to enforce law and order. The insurrection in the countryside aims to focus on the reality of a discriminated, unfair and massacred group, despite its significance for humanity.