Positivismo, trabalhismo, populismo: a ideologia das elites gaúchas

Resumo

This article approaches some aspects of the political and ideological
arrengements of the elites in Rio Grande do Sul in the 20 th century, criticising the
existing literature. Thus it refutes the proposition that the laborism had its origin in
the republican positivism, showing that the treatment given b) the gaúcho government
in 1917 to the workmen on strike was an episodical event and not the rule in
the period. The article aiso shows the difference between developmentalism and
laborism, and points out that the influence of positivism happened mast!) in the
former rather tham in the latter, disagreeing that the positivism was taken to the
federal government by Vargas after 1930.