Interpretations of Brazil and Global Capitalism

Certain interpretations of Brazil may be read as texts providing theorizations of global capitalism. Study of a set of these texts focusing on Florestan Fernandes’s A revolu？？o burguesa no Brasil exposes the connections between the internal and the external and the articulations of past, present, and future in the production of inequality within and among countries. Renewed attention to them is likely to be fruitful for debates on global capitalism that are not of exclusive interest to the Brazilian case and to challenge a certain global division of intellectual labor. Certas interpreta？？es do Brasil podem ser lidas como textos que fornecem teoriza？？es do capitalismo global. O estudo de um conjunto de textos com foco no A revolu？？o burguesa no Brasil, de Florestan Fernandes, exp？e as conex？es entre o interno e o externo e as articula？？es de passado, presente e futuro na produ？？o da desigualdade dentro e entre os países. Uma aten？？o renovada para eles provavelmente é proveitosa para debates sobre o capitalismo global que n？o s？o de interesse exclusivo do caso brasileiro e para desafiar certa divis？o global do trabalho intelectual