Caio Prado Júnior

Caio Prado Júnior ( born February 11, 1907 in São Paulo, † November 23, 1990 ) was a Brazilian historian, geographer, writer and politician (PC do B and PCB).

Prado Júnior is regarded as one of the founders of Marxist historiography in Brazil. He was a professor at the Universidade de São Paulo and founded in 1934 with Pierre Deffontaines, Luís Flores de Morais Rego and Rubens Borba de Morais, the Brazilian Association of Geographers ( AGB). He was editor of the evening paper A plateia; In 1943 he founded, together with Arthur Neves and Monteiro Lobato, the publishing house Editora Brasiliense in which he held until 1964, the magazine Revista Brasiliense edited from 1956. 1945 Prado Júnior was chosen for the Partido Comunista Brasileiro into the Brazilian Parliament. In the 1950s he studied theoretically with dialectics and published A Dialética do Conhecimento (1952 ) and Introdutórias Notas à Lógica Dialética (1959). During the military dictatorship, he was politically persecuted. In 1966 he was awarded for his dictatorship critical book A revolução brasileira of Prêmio Juca Pato.