ISEB Intellectuals, the Left, and Marxism
1998; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/0094582x9802500109
ISSN1552-678X
AutoresCaio Navarro de Toledo, Laurence Hallewell,
Tópico(s)Youth, Politics, and Society
ResumoUntil the end of the 1950s, writers associated with the Instituto Superior de Estudos Brasileiros (Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies-ISEB) were united in the political and intellectual project of creating an ideology that would stimulate Brazil's development, but the developmental nationalism that resulted came in several varieties. There were differences among them depending on their individual theoretical training, ideological motivation, and political backgrounds, and sometimes their views were diametrically opposed (Toledo, 1977).1 Although one could point out some congruencies and points of agreement among them, it is doubtful whether we can suggest that there was any unified and coherent pattern of thought. Conflicts about theory and ideology, leading at times to crisis and dissension, lasted as long as the institution. My intention in this article is not to analyze in detail the ideologies of developmental nationalism that were formulated at the ISEB-their presuppositions, their limits, their class nature, or their political and social effectiveness-but instead to examine how the works of the outstanding ISEB writers were connected to Marxism and to left-wing politics in the political and intellectual environment of Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s. I have chosen the work of Helio Jaguaribe de Mattos,2 Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, Alvaro Vieira Pinto, and Nelson Werneck Sodre, since it was they who contributed the most to defining the theoretical and ideological profile of the ISEB and its original intentions. Insisting, therefore, on the plurality and heterogeneity of ideas within the ISEB, I aim to discuss how some intellectuals, motivated by the idea of social and political commitment, were related to similarly committed theoretical
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