Anos 1960: Caio Prado Jr. e "A Revolução Brasileira"

Abstract

O artigo discute a posição de Caio Prado Jr. no interior da corrente marxista da historiografia brasileira, sua interpretação heterodoxa do Brasil dentro do PCB - visão das forças revolucionárias brasileiras - avaliação do passado e expectativas em relação ao futuro do Brasil, além da concepção e reconstrução da temporalidade histórica singular brasileira. A obra selecionada para análise é A Revolução Brasileira, de 1966, escrita e recebida de forma apaixonada no ambiente de derrota das esquerdas pós-golpe de 64. Nessa obra, ele expõe de forma clara e vigorosa as suas teses sobre o Brasil, contrapondo-se ao modelo da revolução democrático-burguesa do PCB, representando o pensamento autocrítico das esquerdas brasileiras durante os anos 1960.<br>This article analyses the Caio Prado Jr.'s position inside the marxist tendence of the Brazilian historiography. It presents his heterodox position inside PCB, vision of the Brazilian revolutionary forces, evaluation of the past and expectations about the Brazilian future, conception and reconstruction of the singular Brazilian historical temporality. The work that was selected to be analysed is "A Revolução Brasileira" (1966) ("The Brazilian Revolution"), passionately written and received in the ambience of the left's defeat after the 1964's putsh. In this book he exposes clearly and vigorously his thesis about Brazil and against the PCB's democratical-bourgeoise revolution model, representing the autocritical Brazilian left thought during the sixties

Brutalism and the People: Architectural Articulations of National Developmentalism in Mid-Twentieth-Century São Paulo

“…The political repertoire of national developmentalism turned its back on most of these native conceptualizations of citizenship and politics. For example, the Communist Party, although it had been illegal since 1947, devoted the majority of its political formulations about the people to discussions of the revolutionary potential of rural and industrial workers and the need to establish alliances with “progressive” sectors of the Brazilian bourgeoisie (Prado Júnior 1966; Reis 1999). Absent from its agenda were problems of everyday life and conflicts in the realm of relations “in production,” such as structures of domination in factories and construction sites.…”

“…This alliance, within the contours of a language of national development, should bring together industrial workers and progressive sectors of the emergent national bourgeoisie. At the same time, rural workers should play a revolutionary role against rural oligarchies by demanding the extinction of large rural estates rather than improvements in their work and life conditions (Cardoso 1964; Prado Júnior 1966; Reis 1999). 9 The Marxism of the Brazilian Communist Party was “radically anti-romantic, illuminist, evolutionist, and piously admiring of industrial-capitalist ‘progress’” (Brandão 1997: 240).…”

Americanismo, o novo marco de ciência, tecnologia e inovação: sequestro do fundo público pelo capital financeiro.

“…João Carlos Reis (1999), ao analisar a trajetória intelectual de Caio Prado Júnior, fornece importante síntese sobre tais ascendências: Ele [Caio Prado Júnior] esteve presente em todas as fases, atravessando-as com inacreditável autonomia intelectual desde 1933 até 1966. Talvez a melhor maneira de localizá-lo no pensamento marxista brasileiro seria situá-los entre Nelson Werneck Sodré, historiador oficial do PCB, e o chamado "grupo do Capital", os marxistas acadêmicos da USP.…”