Utopia and positivism in the early days of the labor movement in Brazil

Abstract

This article analyzes the content of the socialist ideas in Brazil, as well as the form as it was present in the practical of the working class while trying organize itself at the beginning of 20^th century in Brazil. This work is based on vast documentary quantity, that includes periodicals, magazines and pamphlets. The results had shown to the significant influence of the socialism pre-Marxism at the marxism, mixed to predominant the positivists ideas in Brazil.