Agency and geopolitics: Brazilian formal independence and the problem of Eurocentrism in international historical sociology

Salgado, Pedro

doi:10.1080/09557571.2019.1638343

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“…A second debate relates to the very character of U&CD as a lens, a frame, a concept, a causal law, or a theory. Teschke (2014), Rioux (2015) and Salgado (2020) (among others) have criticised what they see as ahistorical, overly abstract, or deterministic character of U&CD. Meanwhile, U&CD scholars continue to creatively use U&CD in a variety of ways that eschew the rigid, quasi-positivist version implied by their critics.…”

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A system of mutual dependence and antagonism: exploring the potential of uneven and combined development within Global Political Economy

Antunes De Oliveira,

Germann,

Rolf

2023

Global Political Economy

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U&CD scholarship has made vital conceptual and analytical contributions to international relations and international historical sociology scholarship during recent decades. However, so far, it has mainly focused on the longue durée of capitalist transitions rather than contemporary analyses of the dynamics, crises and policy shifts within the global political economy. A small body of literature has recently begun to apply a U&CD conceptual toolkit towards just such ends. In this special issue, we showcase a range of original thought and empirical work which advances the U&CD perspective within the growing and critically oriented field of global political economy. Transcending the pitfalls of orthodox liberal and realist approaches, U&CD draws a direct link between ruptures, contradictions and crises in the global economy and its ongoing division into a multiplicity of nominally sovereign territorial political units. Focusing on a breadth of divisions and antagonisms across lines of class, race, gender and nationality, the articles contained herein point to the immense potential for creative applications of U&CD to play a role in GPE scholarship as it emerges from the grip of the stifling orthodoxies of international political economy.

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A system of mutual dependence and antagonism: exploring the potential of uneven and combined development within Global Political Economy

Antunes De Oliveira,

Germann,

Rolf

2023

Global Political Economy

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“…By making this argument, Fernandes exaggerates the extent to which formal independence leads to the development of a bourgeois (or capitalist) class. This is demonstrated through the absence of such a class throughout most of the 19th century, as well as through the absence of such type of class forces in the disputes for independence and state‐formation throughout that period (Bethell, 1989; Salgado, 2019). In addition, the idea of a ‘proper capitalist mentality’ reveals an ideal‐typical conception of capitalism, and the expectation that the Brazilian transition will somehow mirror such a conception, which is opposed to the notion that Brazilian capitalism is shaped by its particular geopolitical context (which is a core tenet of the dependency tradition).…”

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The transition debate in Brazilian history: The bourgeois paradigm and its critique

Salgado

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The origins of capitalism in Brazil have been traditionally overlooked by the literature on its developmental trajectory, either considered as an outcome of colonial exploitation or described through a broad notion of ‘bourgeois revolution’. The recent discussion between the consequentialist interpretation of bourgeois revolutions and the Political Marxist critique of the bourgeois paradigm allows for a reassessment of these narratives, with a stronger emphasis on the specific disputes of early‐20th‐century Brazil. In this paper, I engage with Florestan Fernandes as the main representative of the bourgeois paradigm within Brazil. As an alternative, I present a reassessment of the ‘capitalist transition’ understood as a set of social property relations organised around market dependency. By tracing this form of market dependency through Brazilian historiography, I present a narrative that posits the development of capitalism in Brazil through the nonrevolutionary rise of an industrial bourgeoisie during the Old Republic and the competing strategies of declining (British) and rising (US/Germany) financial imperialism in the 1920s. Therefore, it highlights the role of (geo)political disputes by pointing towards the policy changes introduced by the Vargas regime in the 1930s as a key factor in the transition to capitalism in Brazil.

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“…13 Secondly, they ignore discussions on the need to foreground any social history in careful and meticulous specificity that does not assume a general law of development or a teleological search for a given phenomenon -for example, consequentialist historians are, for Political Marxists, especially guilty of this mistake. 14 Instead, the method of Political Marxism, if one agrees to there being one, is foremost to move away from a pre-given set of assumptions about historical development, and to not fetishize economic or political 10 For these authors' previous key contributions to Political Marxism, see Moreno Zacarés (2018) and Salgado (2020). 11 Defined originally by Brenner (2007: 58), social property relations are understood as 'the relations among direct producers, relations among exploiters, and relations between exploiters and direct producers that, taken together, make possible/specify the regular access of individuals and families to the means of production (land, labour, tools) and/or the social product per se.'…”

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Radical Historicism or Rules of Reproduction? New Debates in Political Marxism

Pal

2021

Hist. Mater.

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This introduction presents the symposium on Sam Knafo and Benno Teschke’s article in Historical Materialism, ‘Political Marxism and the Rules of Reproduction of Capitalism: A Historicist Critique’ (2021). It briefly summarises the foundations of Political Marxism, discusses the broader implications of the debate raised by Knafo and Teschke for questions of collective knowledge-production and methods in Marxist historiography, and outlines the seven contributions of the symposium. The introduction concludes by tracing, through the evolution of debates in Political Marxism and the contributions of its protagonists, some of the lineages of Marxist historiography as well as of the history of this journal.

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Agency and geopolitics: Brazilian formal independence and the problem of Eurocentrism in international historical sociology

Cited by 5 publications

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A system of mutual dependence and antagonism: exploring the potential of uneven and combined development within Global Political Economy

A system of mutual dependence and antagonism: exploring the potential of uneven and combined development within Global Political Economy

The transition debate in Brazilian history: The bourgeois paradigm and its critique

Radical Historicism or Rules of Reproduction? New Debates in Political Marxism

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