Guerreiro Ramos’ forbidden book

Abstract

Palavras-chave: Guerreiro Ramos. Pensamento social. Teoria do socialismo. Teoria das organizações. Palabras clave: Guerreiro Ramos. Pensamiento social. Teoría del socialismo. Teoría de las organizaciones.Mito e verdade da revolução brasileira (The Myth and Truth of the Brazilian Revolution) was published originally in 1963. Included in the dictatorship's index, it has become a little-known work, but it appeared in a new edition published by Editora Insular in 2016. It is a book that is part of the vast literature about the Brazilian Revolution. In it, Guerreiro Ramos expounds his thesis about the need for a Brazilian path to socialism, in opposition to the importing of revolutionary models from abroad. In conceptualizing the social phenomenon, he distinguishes revolution from analogous social phenomena such as coups, civil wars, and military rebellions. Through a dialogue between Brazilian social thought and the revolution category, linked to socialism and communism, Guerreiro Ramos makes a 'sociological reduction' of the category and offers the reader a book in which he criticizes the roots of Stalinism, pointing out the challenges of transforming contemporary Brazil.Alberto Guerreiro Ramos , a Brazilian intellectual and politician who was ousted and lived in exile in the United States after the coup of 1964, where he was a professor at the University of Southern California 1 , has had his books reedited 2 and even made available on the internet through the Federal Board of Administration 3 . Recently in 2016, Editora Insular published a new edition of The Myth and Truth of the Brazilian Revolution, 2 nd edition as the sixth volume of the Pátria Grande Collection, which is part of the Library of Critical Latin American Thought in the Latin American Studies Institute (IELA/ UFSC). The publisher promises to launch a collection of a total of 80 classic books of the Latin American intelligentsia, works by intellectuals who broke with the Eurocentric canon and made fundamental contributions to orient politics designed to overcome underdevelopment and dependence.1 And not a professor at South Carolina University as is written on the book flap. 2 See: Azevedo (2016, p. 24).