Vermelho pra que te quero? A simbologia da cor nos movimentos sociopolíticos na história do Brasil

Abstract

The present work search understand how the color red became a symbol of the sociopolitics movements of the left in Brazil. We observed how the red color is present on the human history and we seek to understand the meanings that had been assigned to it over time, until the moment that she became synonym of a ideology. Besides that, we searched the postmodern society and how the subjects inserted in it relate; the social movements on Brazil, how they support themselves in the today’s society; and the communist political culture and its remnants in the Brazilian political culture. Has as methodology the bibliographic research, which is based on books and articles by expert authors as a basis for argumentation. From that, we understand how the red color inserted itself as a particularizing element in postmodern Brazilian political culture and how cultural codes had built the class struggle symbology with this color.