The invention of subversive education

newspaper communism, the US government and the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship

Abstract

This article consists in understanding, from classified sources that were recently unveiled, the means by which, in the early years of the coup, the civil-military dictatorship, under strong interference of the USA, made the repressive and ideological apparatus of the State its constitutive elements and acted premeditatedly and decisively in the ideological realignment of education – as the epicenter of a indissoluble modus operandi to the design of the endogenous and exogenous ruling classes. Coordinated actions of criminalization of education that subjected one of the main pillars of development of the country to the metric of an educational market – private – in expansion and also promoted the deepening of this ideology in the Brazilian educational system. In this sense, we seek to critically challenge the structures of representation, through the actions of the State and its supporting institutions, having as locus the information system – and its statements, with international and national scope –, the legal system, observing some normative changes, and the educational system, as a vital space for maintaining the ideology of the dominant classes. Amalgam analyzed through later sources – memorands and telegrams – and the objective conditions of subordination of Brazil to the USA. Analysis that, therefore, intends to understand the inflows capable of interfering in the structure of Brazilian education even today.