“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please”

the mistakes of A revolução de 1930  from a Marxist perspective of revolution

Authors

  • Jaqueline Uzai Tavares Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5335/srph.v24i2.17822

Keywords:

Boris Fausto, Bourgeois Revolution, Revolution of 1930

Abstract

A revolução de 1930 is a landmark in the historiography about this period, bringing a critic to the interpretations that came of what Bóris Fausto calls as the theory of dualism in the dependent latin-american societies, and that unfolds in two variants that the author seeks to refute. In the making of his critics and in the way to counter what would it be in his eyes an inconsistent interpretation, Bóris Faust criticism arises from a watertight and intentionalist conception of bourgeois revolution, taking the bourgeoisie as a synonymous of industrialization, from an interpretation that considers the class movements in an anti-dialectical way,  detaching the struggles between local powers and the development of productive forces of the dynamics of capitalism at local and global level, and that it's far from the totalizing conceptions of social change that are undertaken by the marxist analyses that he aims to refute.

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Author Biography

  • Jaqueline Uzai Tavares, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1176-6477

    Mestranda em História Social na Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Bacharel e Licenciada (2022) em História pela mesma instituição. 

References

FAUSTO, Bóris. A revolução de 1930: história e historiografia. 16. ed. rev. e ampl. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1997.

Published

2026-01-27

How to Cite

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please”: the mistakes of A revolução de 1930  from a Marxist perspective of revolution. (2026). Semina - Revista Dos Pós-Graduandos Em História Da UPF, 24(2), e-2025018. https://doi.org/10.5335/srph.v24i2.17822