Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze the period of political-strategic reorganization of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), between 2000 and 2016, which focused on the proposal to implement environmental education and promote agroecology in its settlements and production cooperatives. Through documentary, bibliographic and empirical analysis, the contradictory existence of elements that define and articulate two opposing paths was found: on the one hand, the creation of a path of intellectual, political and economic autonomy from collective organization, education and the technical training of a significant portion of rural workers and, on the other hand, a process of subordination of landless leaders by the Workers' Party (PT) governments, which resulted in the stagnation of the agrarian reform in Brazil.
Keywords:
MST; Agrarian reform; Agroecology; Brazil