Abstract
This article analyzes Brazil’s nationalization process of the Gramscian concept of passive revolution between the 1970s and 1980s. Our approach associates the history of international communism with the Brazilian Communist Party’s (PCB) trajectory: it starts from the notion of nationalization by Bernardo Ricupero and Luis Tápia and Serge Wolikow’s notion of histoires croisées of communism. In tackling the output of Gramscian intellectuals and militants – fundamental to appropriating the concept of passive revolution in Brazil in that period – this article shows that the international communism influences these analyses. From this observation, this article highlights the elements of passive revolution that allow us to employ it to further analyze the singular formation of the Brazilian State - namely, the condition of dependent periphery and colonialism.
Brazil; colonialism; passive revolution; Brazilian Communist Party; history of political thought (20th century)