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Dados vol. 26 n. 3 Rio de Janeiro 1983
Resumo
The author discusses the changes in the citizenship status of the subordinate classes in the context of the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime in Brazil. The main argument is that the Brazilian bourgeoisie has proved to be historically backward with respect to the extension of citizenship to the mass of the population, the establishment of liberal-democratic linkages between the state and civil society, and the relationship between intellectuals and culture. lf this hypothesis is accepted, it follows that the process of transition to democracy will not consolidate the class rule of the bourgeoisie, at least not in the form of social and political institutions that, in connection with the current degree of economic modernization, could assure her triumph and the possibility of her reproduction as a dominant ruling class. On the contrary, the author suggests that a liberal-democratic representing the culmination of a bourgeois revolution from above is more likely to lead to a democratic transformation. As the Brazilian bourgeois revolution reaches her end, the precarious nature of her rule and order becomes clear as she order will necessarily incorporate the subordinate classes as free citizens for the first time in the history of the country. The building of a bourgeois state in Brazil without an associated process of nation-building resulted in a system of capitalist rule incapable of incorporating the masses except through the constraining route of corporatist regulation. The transition to democracy, therefore, in lieu of failed to lead the process of extension of citizenship to the subordinate classes, a process which is now under way in opposition to her political will and plans.
O Problema da Cidadania na Hora da Transição Democrática
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