Peasantry and Family Farmer: same Subjects?

Abstract

his article aims to analyze the existing confusion between the concepts of family farm and peasantry, more specifically to answer if they are categories that include the same subjectsor different ones. In this sense, it shows the key points of two paradigms, with opposing views, over which the debate on the complexity of the agrarian question is developed: the paradigm of theagrarian question, which sees the family farmers and the peasant as the same subjects, and the paradigm of the agrarian capitalism, which sees the family farmer as the peasant in the work market. The hypothesis that will be presented in this study followsthe same guidelines of the agrarian question paradigm, from a Marxian tradition. Therefore, the challenge that we proposed was to show that family farm and peasantry are synonyms, which tends to reaffirm the prestige of the categories “peasant” and “peasantry” in order to value the farmers who work with their families on the land, where they find the sustenance for their families. The method used is the dialectical.