Two hundred years of dependence and autocracy

the bourgeois revolution according to Florestan Fernandes

Abstract

The objective of the article is to critically reflect on the main characteristics of Brazilian society, through a dialogue with Florestan Fernandes' vision regarding the historical process of development of capitalism in Brazil, that is, the bourgeois revolution. The main reference of the article is the work A revolution burguesa no Brasil, but other texts by the author will also be used, such as Nova República? and Notes on Fascism in Latin America. It is intended to argue in favor of the current thinking of Florestan Fernandes, due to the author's ability to work dialectically with the Brazilian reality, and, in this way, to contribute to the understanding of its specificity within the historical process of the development of capitalism on a world scale. Emphasizing the bourgeoisie's abandonment of the national-democratic revolution, and its link with autocratic forms (explicit or covert) of exercising power, Florestan Fernandes' texts are a great contribution to the understanding of our contemporaneity.