The article aims at exploring the contradictions of the category pluriactivity to explain the persistence of family-based/peasant farming in the state of Rio de Janeiro. To do so, we take theoretical-methodological ideas from the Marxist social theory developed by Marx himself, Lenin and Kautsky, to understand the current family-based farming in its economic, social and political dimensions.
Family-based Farming; Pluriactivity; Agrarian Reform
