This paper intends to recover the fundamental elements of the nationalistic ideals in Brazil during the 1950s, highlighting the centrality of the self-sustained development concept. The political and ideological diversity of the nationalistic movement is analyzed through the study of two main streams during the period in focus: the national-developmentalism, of a liberal character, and the economic nationalism, i. e., the left wing stream. Finally, the importance of agrarian reform as a necessary factor of industrialization with citizenship within the social project argued mainly by economic nationalists is studied.
Nationalism; Agrarian Reform; National-developmentalism