Communism, the enemy of the Occident – Between exterminism and resistance

Abstract

This paper intends to give an overview of the trajectory of Brazilian Communist Party since its was create, between 1906 and 1922, until the period of re-democratization of the country, after the military dictatorship, in 1985, trying to evidence how much the party suffered with repression and with the many State interventions, especially in the Cold War context after post World War II. For this, some categories proposed by Thompson were very important to the production of this article, like the Exterminism, directly linked to Cold War and, in the case of this paper, the elimination of the communists, and the Otherness, that served as base for the creation of the common enemy of Latin American dictatorship, again, the communism