Os libertários do Rio: visões do Brasil e dilemas da auto-organização na imprensa anarquista da Primeira República Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The present work focuses on the role of libertarians in the capital of the First Republic, using as research material a set of anarchist periodicals published in Rio de Janeiro between 1903 and 1919. The intense activity developed by libertarian militants of that period can be organized in two fronts: on the one hand, they were involved in the creation of dozens of publications that constitute the anarchist press and, on the other, they founded cultural centers and class associations (guided by the concept of ―resistance unions‖). Considering that the relationship between anarchism and European immigration, although important, has sometimes been overvalued by academic production, we seek to explore connections between anarchism and the Brazilian political-intellectual context. Thus, we inserted it within a historical sequence of political radicalisms in Brazil, and approached the relationship with positivism to reconstruct their views on post-abolition Brazilian society. Exploring texts evaluating the workers 'movement, polls, balance of strikes and other mobilizations, we seek to recover how the anarchists themselves thought about the main problems and dilemmas they encountered for workers' self-organization and emancipation - which brings to the fore the way in which they saw not only the state, but society itself