Para um estudo da questão do socialismo no Brasil: os primórdios em Santos através da publicação de A Questão Social
Resumo
This study has as main goal analyze the publication A questão Social by
the Socialist Center of Santos in the end of the 19th century. I search to
understand how the socialists ideas emerged in Europe were established in the
country and their reflexes over the left-wing press in this study, the periodical
of the Socialist Center of Santos.
The present work tries to show why not to consider the revolutionary acts as the
most adequate, searching for a reformist way of action. The fact of Marxism
has seduced intellectuals from middle classes, from which the leaders of the
Center of Santos came from; pointing out that Silvério Fontes was a strong
mischaracterizing element in this organization before the labor man.
The biggest part of the work parties and organizations defining themselves as
socialists in Brazil during the last decade of the 19th century fought for reformist
measures in favor of workmen such as reduction of working hours and
prohibition of child labor. Thus it can be stated that the Brazilian Socialism was
coherent with the dominant chain of the International Second which prayed for a
socialist society from a perspective which would be the result of a historical
evolution without any kind of violent means to achieve this occurrence,
concentrating its main efforts on short and middle term political actions, that is,
in achieving electing victories and in the program that should lead its actions if
they ever got the power through party arena.
And their publications are an important historical source to understand
this reception of ideas.