Presente, passado e futuro: perspectivas dos intelectuais autoritários e do Tenentismo sobre a República Liberal-Oligárquica

Abstract

The Brazilian Republic disappointed many of its supporters by promoting the establishment of the central oligarchies in power. The regime did not open up space for the new political and social demands developed over the 1910s and 1920s, becoming fragile in the face of different forms of criticism, which passed from speech to weapons. Therefore, this dissertation seeks to assess possible proximities between what the authoritarian critics of the Republic were producing and the Tenentismo were defending at the time of their first armed actions. Considering the values, traditions, practices and representations founders of the liberal Republic in Brazil and set out in the political cultures of the time, including the contribution of the Republican propagandists in the late 19th century. With these references, the aim is to understand the relationship that authoritarian intellectuals and the Tenentismo held at the time of their performances, from this point it would be able to find a possible dialogue from the rebels militaries with the authoritarian intellectuals, in other words, their contemporaries on debate. The liberal model of the Republic founders were facing an acute crisis. After all, both groups that projected as the vanguard of the changes they believed to be necessary for the regime, shared the same political and cultural environment. For this, beyond a retaking on the contributions of the "1870s generation" for the construction of an intellectual and Republican environment in the country, the reports are developed from the tests produced by authoritarian intellectuals, between the 1910s and 1920s, and the manifestos, motion, letters and reports introduced by rebel militaries in the heat of the 1922 and 1924 actions. The final purpose is to search another possible component of the set of political and cultural references, which helped to stimulate some military armed action, using another approach, beyond the sociological or corporate, developed until now by historiography, focusing on attach a predominantly liberal character to the military revolt.