Victor
On Sat, 27 Jan 1996 hbtdl16m@umiami.ir.miami.edu wrote:
>
> I certainly disagree with Victor's comments below, particularly with the
> comment about Cardoso's underlying purpose being a "national capitalist
> market."
>
> In Cardoso's own words, he explicitly rejects capitalism and proposes
> socialism as the best solution. He wrote:
> "It is not realistic to imagine that captalist development will solve
> the basic problems for the majority of the population. In the end, what
> has to be discussed as an alternative is not the consolidation of the
> state and the fulfillment of 'autonomous capitalism,' but how to superced
> them. The important question, then, is how to construct paths toward
> socialism." (Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and
> Development in Latin America (Berkeley: University of California Press,
> 1979), p. xxiv.
>
> Cardoso, in fact blames the bourgeoise developmentalists and the
> state (the military government) for facilitating the situation of
> dependency. He writes, ". . . the state has assumed an increasingly
> repressive character, and dominant classes in a majority of countries
> have proposed policies increasingly removed from popular interest. They
> have rendered viable a "peripheral" capitalist development, adopting a
> growth model based on replication--almost in caricature of the
> consumption styles and industrialization patterns of the central
> capitalist countries . . . . Under these conditions, the state and the
> nation have become separated" (Carsoso and Faletto, 201-02).
>
> For better or worse, Cardoso is a changed person in this changed world.
>
> Please comment. Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Victor O. Story wrote:
>
> > Maybe it is not paradoxical at all. Cardoso's fame for dependency
> > analysis appealled to nationalists in the military and bourgeoisie as
> > much as to the left - developing a self-sustaining national capitalist
> > market was the underlying purpose of dependency analysis - the language
> > seemed Marxist, but the larger context of Cardoso's ideas were frustrated
> > nationalism.
> >
> > Victor
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Jan 1996 mmagalha@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu wrote:
> >
> > > Dear lasneteiros, I am embarking on a project (co-authoring) to explain the
> > > apparent paradox of Fernando henrique Cardoso being elected President of
> > > Brasil with the support of the country's principal conservative elites. I
> > > need to gather information on 1) his political career before becoming a
> > > candidate for President (i know he was a senator from the state of Sao Paulo
> > > beginning in 1978 and that he was an ambassador (to the US??) and then
> > > finance minister under Franco); 2) his presidential campaign (how did he
> > > position himself as a centrist candidate?); and 3) his record as president.
> > > Does anyone have any idea on where I can locate this information? Thanks.
> > > Mariano Magalhaes
> > >
> >
>