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Development Paths in a Settler Society: The Challenges of the Communist Movement in Brazil

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  • Luccas Gissoni
  • Paulo Roberto de Macedo Soares Oliveira Pires
  • Leonardo Griz Carvalheira

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This article addresses the challenges faced by the Communist movement in Brazil by revisiting the contradictions inherited from a colonial mode of accumulation. This was originally a class system based on slavery and composed of the metropolitan colonizer, the settler, and the colonized class. After independence in 1822, which entailed a settler rebellion against the metropolitan colonizer and the continuing exploitation of the colonized, the settlers reproduced the colonial mode of accumulation internally and oversaw the transition to a capitalist mode of production. An interclass, bourgeois–labor alliance occurred in the mid-twentieth century but was limited to the ranks of the settlers and underpinned by the myth of “racial democracy.†It included a degree of confrontation with imperialism coupled with industrial development but reproduced the colonial mode of accumulation internally. This article sheds light on the contradictions that followed, including the military regime installed in 1964 and the neo-colonial transition in the 1990s, under finance capital. In light of the bourgeoisie’s shifting alliances at the expense of the sovereign aspirations of the working people, an interclass alliance has become impossible. Only a truly popular political project is capable of liberating the nation and that is the only one the Communists should espouse.

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  • Luccas Gissoni & Paulo Roberto de Macedo Soares Oliveira Pires & Leonardo Griz Carvalheira, 2024. "Development Paths in a Settler Society: The Challenges of the Communist Movement in Brazil," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 13(2), pages 256-280, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:agspub:v:13:y:2024:i:2:p:256-280
    DOI: 10.1177/22779760241247621
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