Cooperation and Workers’ Cooperatives in São Paulo’s MST: An Analysis of the Actions of the Capitalist State that Block the Educational Potential of Associated Labour

Since the 1970s, we have been witnessing an offensive by capital. In Novaes et al. (2015), we outlined the main dimensions of this offensive: (a) pressure for the free movement of financial capital, resulting in a restructuring of production in the countryside and cities; (b) technological innovations that intensified the production and diversification of goods; (c) expansion of capital towards sectors and fields not yet subject to full commodification, such as health and education, with a wave of privatisation which took the cycle of commodification to a new level; and (d) the implementation of processes of corporate relocation and outsourcing.