Possession, property rights and disposition of brazilian peasants in renewable energy farms and the chinese alternative

This paper approaches gaps between the common belief that wind energy is clean and efficient, promoting legislative changes and investments, and the nature of our current society is based on the workforce’s surplus value and inequal reproduction. This inequality helps to understand the production relations relative to land and land of rent value in renewable energies rent contracts. The land has a use value related to capitalism, but its value is based on an exchange value arbitrarily fixed by the private property. This involves free natural utilities (land fertility, wind power), natural and civil fruits extracted from the workforce in land and its use. The paper proposes to investigate three aspects: the impact of renewable energies expansion in the land structure, the dollar hegemony and the distribution of surplus value, like land of rent influences energy appropriation and the role of private property law. The method chosen involves the perspective of dispossession and the relation between fictional and productive capital, as well as the juridical impacts of its contracts clauses and the rights of land property in the renewable energies expansion. This paper also mentions the chinese experience in renewable energies and its energetic policies, suggesting China can offer a fairer and less unequal alternative than Europe and United States in developing renewable energies in Brazil, especially for the peasantry. In short, this article argues that the expansion of renewable energies is related to a paradigm changing process involving the dispossession of peasant communities. Furthermore, it highlights the dispute between China and USA in the renewable energies field and how this dispute could impact the distribution of surplus value, with possible unfavorable consequences for the peasantry in global south.This study was financed in part by the coordenação de aperfeiçoamento de pessoal de nível superior - Brasil (capes) - Finance code 001