O conceito gramsciano de “revolução passiva” e o Estado brasileiro

Abstract

The concept of "passive revolution", "revolution-restoration" or "evolutionism" is crucial category that Gramsci uses to understand the formation of modern bourgeois state in Italy (on the facts of the Risorgimento, which culminated in the national unification), to define the fundamental features of the passing of Italian capitalism to the stage of monopoly capitalism and fascism as a point of "passive revolution". It is from this understanding that we will use the concept of "passive revolution" to discuss the capitalist modernization in Brazil, considering that this concept applies to several episodes of our history, as well as more generally, the transition to the Country capitalist modernity and the monopolistic state capitalism.