Controversies about history, development and revolution in Brazil : : economic thought in critical interpretation / / edited by Maria Malta [and three others].

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 211
• TeilnehmendeR: Malta, Maria Mello de,; León, Jaime,; Curty, Carla,; Borja, Bruno,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 211.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)

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

Table of Contents

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.