João Amazonas

João Amazonas de Souza Pedroso ( born January 1, 1912 in Belém, † 27 May 2002, São Paulo) was a Brazilian Marxist theoretician and politician of the Partido Comunista do Brasil ( PCdoB ), as well as guerrilla fighters of the guerrilla of Araguaia.

Life

João Amazonas was born on January 1, 1912 in Belém, the capital of the village in northern Brazil state of Pará. At the age of 23 years, Amazon joined the Aliança Nacional Libertadora ( ANL), one of the Partido Comunista do Brasil (then still under the symbol "PCB" occurring ) supported, but zusammgesetzten across party and ideological boundaries, alliance against the spread fascist tendencies within Brazil, to. At that time, Brazil was ruled by an authoritarian dictator Getúlio Vargas Dornelles. In the next few years was a member of both the Amazon União da Juventude Comunista and the PCB, which in 1943 elected him the first time in its Central Committee. Amazon was one of the Kritiker_innen of XX. Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ), as well as the consequences of de-Stalinization, even within the Communist parties outside the Soviet Union, and in particular the PCB. When thereto ansetztenden division of PCB he remained a member of the Partido Comunista do Brasil, which accepted the new shortcut PCdoB and follow not the stalin critical fraction which retained the acronym PCBs, Partido Comunista Brasileiro but henceforth called. In the further course rejected the PCdoB, also by the influence of the Amazon, more and more the price of the CPSU from and oriented more towards the Mao Tse -tung, or later in Enver Hoxha embodied in policy guidelines. At the same time Amazon was from 1968 to 1972 a member of the guerrilla of Araguaia and fought within these guerrilla against the then ruling in Brazil military dictatorship.

Publications

  • O direito da greve, os comunistas defendem na constituinte o direito de greve, Rio de Janeiro: Edições Horizons, 1946.
  • Pelo fortalecimento e unidade sindical, Rio de Janeiro: Edições Horizons, 1946.
  • O revisionismo chinês de Mao Tse-tung, São Paulo: Anita Garibaldi, 1981.
  • Capitalismo e socialismo, Centro de Cultura Operária, [ 1982 ?].
  • Pela liberdade e pela democracia popular, São Paulo: Anita Garibaldi, 1982.
  • Socialismo: ideal because classe Operária, aspiracoes de todos os POVOS, São Paulo: Anita Garibaldi, 1983.
  • AUTENTICA Organização de vanguarda, Centro de Cultura Operária, [ 1984 ?].
  • O trotsquismo, corrente política contra - Revolucionaria, São Paulo: Ed. Anita Garibaldi, [ 1985 ?].
  • Os Desafios do socialismo no Século XXI, São Paulo: Anita Garibaldi, 1999 ISBN 8572770151. .

Participation in Publications

  • Araguaia: luta pela liberdade epopéia because, Brasília: Câmara dos Deputados, 1996 ISBN 8573650141. .
  • O significado da revolução social ista de 1917 São Paulo: Centro de Estudos Sindicais, 1998.
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