“Brazilian revolution”

Uses and contexts

Abstract

The article considers the existence of continuities, routinizations, semantic instability and ruptures in the different uses of the category Brazilian revolu- tion into the political and social thought elaborated in the republican Brazil (1889-1996). It reconstructs an intellectual lineage that mobilized the category to understand and transform the country with different political purposes. It shows that the Brazilian revolution category was used to refer to barracks, in- surrections, armed movements and coups, in accordance with the republican political history. It argues that it acquires more density and utopia when it is used, from the 1940s, with specific theoretical horizons, with different criteria with the proposal of the realization of utopian ideas and future projects.