THE MOVEMENTS OF AND FOR THE COMMON AND QUILOMBOLA COLLECTIVES IN THE FIGHT FOR RIGHTS
RESISTING CULTURALLY AND TERRITORIALLY
Abstract
This article aims to understand collectives, and in particular quilombola collectives from the perspective of the “common” as a new political subject, and of the common as another mode of production, considering them as antagonistic subjects, who produce the resistance in the fight for their territories and everything that this implies. At this point, the objective is, in addition to understanding quilombola collectives from this other perspective, to understand the struggle for territory, as the struggle for the maintenance of a culture, and a “way-of-being-in-common” that is not sheltered by in statehood, which is not part of the proprietary logic – public or private –, and which confronts and resists the capitalist mode of production. To this end, historical materialism from the perspective of Antonio Negri is used as a methodological, theoretical-analytical reference, in which the method considers the antagonism between a creative subjectivity and a subjectivity constituted by capital. It is in this sense that new categories of analysis are established that allow us to account for new social subjects (the crowd/the common) and understand quilombola collectives based on these categories in antagonism to “imperial” subjectivities.