Banca de DEFESA: THIAGO RODRIGUES DOS PASSOS

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STUDENT : THIAGO RODRIGUES DOS PASSOS
DATE: 15/02/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Sociologia
TITLE:

THE CONSTITUTION AND METAMORPHOSES OF THE WORKERS' PARTY'S POPULAR-DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY

KEY WORDS:

strategy; capitalism; development; State; democracy; socialism

PAGES: 318
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This thesis aims to study the formation and metamorphoses of the Workers' Party's (PT) popular-democratic strategy from 1980 to 2002. Initially, we analyzed the theoretical assumptions and historical-social contexts that led the Party to emergence and several transformations. The initial formation of the popular-democratic strategy was the result of theoretical-political balances of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) nationaldemocratic strategy and the reorganization of the Brazilian working class, based on the workers' strikes in the ABC region of São Paulo. Its initial configuration in the 1980s defended socialism as a strategic objective, rejecting the Brazilian Communist Party's (PCB) stagism formulation around the need for the capitalist development in Brazil and an alliance between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. However, the formulation of the same year had a tension between a rupturist perspective and a social revolution perspective in motion. In the 1990s, on the other hand, the on-going and gradual perspective of social transformation became dominant to the point where the initial socialist objective was converted into a National Development Project based on an internal mass market. To understand the transformations in the PT's strategy, this research analyzes the elaborations of Brazilian social thought and Marxism - and their possible correlations with the party’s strategy - and the Worker’s Party apprehension of Brazilian social formation, especially its understanding of capitalism, the state and its practicalpolitical intervention in social reality. The theoretical understanding that there were still certain insufficiencies and incompleteness in Brazilian capitalism unfolded into a strategy of economic and political democratization, which sought, on one hand, an economic model for the inclusion of workers in the labor and consumer market and, on the other, the expansion of democracy, opening the State to the political participation of workers. The popular-democratic strategy, in its complex and contradictory trajectory, ended up producing an alliance between the Brazilian working class and the bourgeoisie. This union was formed around a popular- democratic national project for a capitalist development with income distribution for the workers, incorporating elements of the PCB's stagism, social democracy and the national developmentalism, despite initially denying it.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO CORRÊA PRADO - UNILA
Presidente - 1505195 - SERGIO BARREIRA DE FARIA TAVOLARO
Interno - 1804106 - STEFAN FORNOS KLEIN
Externo ao Programa - 3363909 - THOMAS EDSON DE JESUS THEODORO AMORIM - null