PERSPECTIVES OF ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE

Abstract

Social and individual aspects of the adoption of new technologies were discussed, from epistemological viewpoint, and it was concluded that, in general, technologies are results of social and historic circunstances. A relexive analysis was made concerning falacious talk about alternative agriculture perspectives that, in addition to being the result of the capitalist system, is also a result of this production mode. Two ideological currents were evidenced, that dealt with technological innovations. One, that attributed the destruction of nature and of life itself, to the production relationships, stablished under the capitalist system, and another that, for question of convenience, forgets the correspondence between the production relationships and the development of the productive forces, that propose a "Green capitalism", with the objective of no longer submetting society to modern technologies. We conclude that, talking about alternative technologies in a capitalist system becomes impossible, since social transformations are the ones that introduce imediately the development of productive forces, and not the opposite. Technology process puts the small producer within intercapitalist competition, expelling him later, and thus, confirming the excluding characters of capitalist introduction in rural areas. This represents the loss of the campestral characteristics (proletarization), the "lumpenization" (loss of productive function of the families of the small producers).