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22 - Anarchism and Syndicalism in Brazil

from Africa, Asia, Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Claudio Batalha
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

Establishing precisely when socialism and anarchist socialism arrived in Brazil is far from an easy task. Throughout the nineteenth century, references to European socialist thinkers or social reformers were common in the Brazilian press. At least since the late 1840s, authors such as Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, Pierre Leroux, Louis Blanc, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon were frequently mentioned. Nevertheless, these references were often critical. In a way, anti-socialism preceded socialism as a structured social movement. This can be measured by the fearful reactions to the Paris Commune of 1871 and by favourable remarks on Otto von Bismarck’s anti-socialist laws.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 534 - 552
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Dulles, John W. F., Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900–1935 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973).Google Scholar
French, John D., The Brazilian Workers’ ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern São Paulo (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).Google Scholar
Goés, Plínio de Jnr, Mallot, Curry Stephenson, and Pruyn, Marc (eds.), The Luso‐Anarchist Reader: The Origins of Anarchism in Portugal and Brazil (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2016).Google Scholar
Hahner, June E., Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870–1920 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986).Google Scholar
Mattos, Marcelo Badaró, Laborers and Enslaved Workers: Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro’s Working Class, 1850–1920 (New York: Berghahn, 2017).Google Scholar
Meade, Teresa A., ‘Civilizing’ Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930 (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1997).Google Scholar
Toledo, Edilene, and Biondi, Luigi, ‘Constructing Syndicalism and Anarchism Globally: The Transnational Making of the Syndicalist Movement in São Paulo, Brazil, 1895–1935’, in Hirsch, S. and van der Walt, L. (eds.), Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010), pp. 363–93.Google Scholar
Wolfe, Joel, Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 1993).Google Scholar

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