Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil

Economic Thought in Critical Interpretation
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50020-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 211, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil is a critical exploration of the history of Brazilian economic thought in the light of the country’s own historical and political development. Editors Maria Malta, Jaime León, Carla Curty and Bruno Borja present an analytical interpretation of the facts, which reveals the power of debates constructing a genuinely Brazilian contribution to world economic thought on development, democracy, history, dependency, and revolution.

Resulting from 10 years of collective research, this book incorporates a new methodological proposal stemming from the strength and resilience of public research financed by the Brazilian people in quest of their own formative interpretation.

Contributors are: Bruno Borja, Carla Curty, Filipe Leite, Jaime León, Maria Malta, Larissa Mazolli, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Wilson Vieira.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mello de Malta, Maria

León, Jaime

Curty, Carla

Borja, Bruno

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

Alfredo Saad-Filho

INTRODUCTION AND WARNING TO THE READER

Bruno Borja, Carla Curty, Jamie León and Maria Malta

PART 1: HOW TO TELL THE HISTORY – METHOD, THOUGHT AND VERSIONS IN DISPUTE

1. METHODOLOGICAL ELEMENTS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: THE APPROACH OF CONTROVERSIES

Carla Curty and Maria Malta

Introduction

Controversy as a key to reading history of thought

Historical materialism and dialectics

The perception of the history of thought as an object of the approach of controversies

Controversy in history of Brazilian economic thought (HBET)

Incorporating the contribution of interpreters of Brazil to the history of Brazilian economic thought (HBET)

Final considerations

2. INTERPRETERS OF BRAZIL: INFLUENCES ON THE ORIGIN OF BRAZILIAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT

Carla Curty, Maria Malta and Bruno Borja

Introduction

The notion of interpreter of Brazil

The first generation of interpreters: abolitionists and workers

The second generation (1920s/30s): demiurges and the centrality of social relations of production

Conclusion

3. CONTROVERSY ON ECONOMIC HISTORY OF BRAZIL: ROBERTO SIMONSEN, CAIO PRADO JR. AND CELSO FURTADO

Bruno Borja

Introduction

Roberto Simonsen: interpretation of production cycles

Caio Prado Jr: Marxist interpretation of Brazil

Celso Furtado: structuralist interpretation of Brazil

Review of the controversy

PART 2: REVOLUTION, DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY: THE STORY OF A BRAZIL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN

4. REVISITING THE ORIGINS OF THE CONTROVERSY ON THE BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION: A DEBATE BETWEEN OCTAVIO BRANDÃO, MARIO PEDROSA AND LÍVIO XAVIER

Filipe Leite Pinheiro

Introduction

Octavio Brandão’s portrait of Brazil

A Marxist-Leninist analysis of Brazilian economic and social formation

The petty-bourgeois democratic strategy for the Brazilian revolution

Mario Pedrosa and Lívio Xavier’s Portrait of Brazil

An outline for a Marxist interpretation of Brazil

The Brazilian revolution as a socialist revolution

Final considerations

5. VISIONS OF THE BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION: NELSON WERNECK SODRÉ, CAIO PRADO JR AND FLORESTAN FERNANDES

Bruno Borja, Carla Curty, and Jamie León

Introduction

Nelson Werneck Sodré: the bourgeois democratic revolution

Caio Prado Junior: criticism of the democratic bourgeois revolution

Florestan Fernandes: permanent revolution and counterrevolution

A controversy in permanent revolution: by way of conclusion

6. UNDERDEVELOPMENT AND DEPENDENCY: AN ANALYSIS OF CELSO FURTADO'S THOUGHT AND ITS APPROACH TO DEPENDENCY THEORY

Wilson Vieira

Underdevelopment and Dependency in the 1970s: Approximations between Celso Furtado and Dependency Theory

Transformations in Furtado's Thought After the 1964 Coup

Dependency Theory and the Formation of a Controversy with Furtado

Underdevelopment and dependency in the face of globalization: developments of Celso Furtado's reflections and Dependency Theory

Final considerations

7. SEEDS OF BRAZILIAN UNDERDEVELOPMENT: A CONTROVERSY ON PROPERTY, LABOR FORCE AND PRODUCTION

Larissa Mazolli Veiga and Maria Malta

Introduction

Limits to development and agricultural surplus: the thought of the classics

Limits to development outside the classical liberal perspective: structural surplus of “labor”, Productivity and structural heterogeneity

Arthur Lewis and the structural surplus of labor

Prebisch's structuralist model

The controversy of the agricultural issue in Brazilian economic thought: politics, underdevelopment, and structural heterogeneity

Celso Furtado: underdevelopment as the center of the debate

Caio Prado Junior: regressive modernization without changing the ownership structure

Ignácio Rangel: from feudal latifundio to capitalist latifundio

Antônio Barros de Castro: the role of agriculture in the development of underdevelopment

Conclusion

8. RESTRICTED DEMOCRACY, MASS DEMOCRACY AND THE CRISIS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC

Jaime León and Maria Malta

Introduction

Bourgeois consensus on capitalist domination and transformation: basic notions of a “restricted democracy” or a dictatorship in the name of democracy

The controversy of democratic perspectives at the birth of the New Republic: co-optation democracy and mass democracy

Transformism: democracy as an instrument of accommodation to bourgeois order in the New Republic

Final considerations

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Malta is Professor at the Political Economy Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and coordinator of the Laboratory of Marxist Studies (LEMA / UFRJ / UFRRJ). Her research areas include history of economic thought, critique of political economy and history of economic and social thought in Brazil.

Jaime León is Professor at the Political Economy Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and researcher at the Laboratory of Marxist Studies (LEMA / UFRJ / UFRRJ). His research areas include Brazilian socio-economic formation, democracy and racial issues. He is also a member of the Florestan Fernandes Study Group (GEFF).

Carla Curty is Professor at the Três Rios Institute, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). She is also researcher at the Laboratory of Marxist Studies (LEMA / UFRJ / UFRRJ) and the Marxist Collective (MAR / UFRRJ). Her research areas include history of economic thought, critique of political economy and history of economic and social thought in Brazil and Latin America.

Bruno Borja is Professor at the Multidisciplinary Institute of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). He is also researcher at the Marxist Collective (MAR / UFRRJ) and at the Laboratory of Marxist Studies (LEMA / UFRJ / UFRRJ). His research areas include political economy of culture and Latin American economic and social thought.