A nação e seu labirinto: a dependência e o desencontro entre a democracia e a nação

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the relationship between "dependency theory" and the national question. The main objective is to identify the training course and the place of the analysis of dependence in the Brazilian political thought. The research presents a literature review of the concept of dependence in three generations of studies of imperialism, focusing on Marxist thought. Search contextualize the emergence of "dependency theory" and its mismatch with the national issues, democracy and development. It offers a new reading of the controversy between formulations dependence Ruy Mauro Marini and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, to highlight the normative dimension of his theoretical influences of its interpretations. It concludes that the determinant of the emergence of so-called "Dependency School" is not exactly the "originality" of the formulations, but the controversy with thought national development.