João Amazon

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

Life

João Amazonas was born on January 1, 1912 in Belém, the capital of the state of Pará in northern Brazil . At the age of 23, the Amazon joined the Aliança Nacional Libertadora (ANL), an alliance against the spread, supported by the Partido Comunista do Brasil (back then under the abbreviation “PCB”) but which went beyond party and ideological boundaries fascist tendencies within Brazil. At that time, Brazil was ruled authoritarian by the dictator Getúlio Dornelles Vargas . In the next few years Amazonas became a member of both the União da Juventude Comunista and the PCB, which elected him to its Central Committee for the first time in 1943 . Amazon was one of the critics of the XX. Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), as well as the consequences of de-Stalinization , also within the communist parties outside the USSR and especially the PCB. In the subsequent division of the PCB, he remained a member of the Partido Comunista do Brasil, which adopted the new abbreviation PCdoB and did not follow the Stalin-critical faction, which kept the abbreviation PCB , but called itself Partido Comunista Brasileiro from then on . In the further course, the PCdoB, also through the influence of the Amazon, increasingly rejected the course of the CPSU and orientated itself more closely to the political guidelines embodied by Mao Tse-Tung and later Enver Hoxha . At the same time, the Amazonas was a member of the Araguaia guerrilla from 1968 to 1972 and fought within this guerrilla against the military dictatorship then ruling in Brazil .

Publications

• O direito da greve, os comunistas defendem na constituinte o direito de greve , Rio de Janeiro, Edições Horizonte, 1946.
• Pelo fortalecimento e unidade sindical , Rio de Janeiro, Edições Horizonte, 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 da classe operária, aspiracoes de todos os povos , São Paulo, Anita Garibaldi, 1983.
• Autêntica organização de vanguarda , Centro de Cultura Operária, [1984?].
• O trotsquismo, corrente política contra-revolucionária , São Paulo, Ed. Anita Garibaldi, [1985?].
• Os desafios do socialismo no século XXI , São Paulo, Anita Garibaldi, 1999. ISBN 85-7277-015-1 .

Contribution to publications

• Araguaia: epopéia da luta pela liberdade , Brasília, Câmara dos Deputados, 1996. ISBN 85-7365-014-1 .
• O significado da revolução socialista de 1917 , São Paulo, Centro de Estudos Sindicais, 1998.

literature

• Pedro de Oliveira: João Amazonas , Brasilia, Edições Câmara, 2011. ISBN 978-85-7365-696-1 .

Web links

• Biography and publications of Amazon on marxists.org (Portuguese)