Um leninista não marxista: a teoria da revolução de Lenin na obra de Azevedo Amaral

Abstract

The 30 s in Brazil were marked by its intellectual elite's political enthusiasm. A rich set of ideas aimed at understanding the national reality and to build their future involved the Brazilian political debate. With the advent of a cultural nationalist paradigm in the interwar period, accompanied by a strong criticism of the European universalist assumptions, the complexity of the urban social tissue and the rise of new generations of the elite and middle class have become a reality "knocking at Brazil's door" emphasizing the need for a definition in the global modernization process from their own theoretical formulations. Issues relating to culture, politics and economic development have been thoroughly discussed, however, the choice of methods and techniques to be adopted was the evidence of the theoretical gap between their thinkers. This thesis aims to present a theory of a leading Brazilian thinker of the period, the journalist and intellectual Azevedo Amaral. Inspired by some elements of the Russian Revolution, Amaral theorized modernization by strengthening the state's administrative apparatus. Outside the European cosmopolitanism, Azevedo Amaral represented a major change in the way of understanding the position and intellectual production of the peripheral countries in the world.