Marxism in economics departments in Brazil during the military dictatorship

摘要

The paper analyzes the possible interferences of the Brazilian military regime (1964-1985) in teaching and research on Marxist economics. First, we examined courses, syllabi, and reading assignments from economics departments mainly from the 1960s and 1970s. Second, we interviewed professors that either studied or taught during the military regime years. We were unable to identify a systematic and well-organized interference in these departments that lead to constraining the teaching and research on Marxist economics; however, the climate of fear and suspicion that reigned in Brazilian universities led scholars to adopt what we could call "self-censorship".