A águia do norte definiu o vôo do condor: política e Ideologia na formação escolar profissionalizante nas décadas de 1930 a 1980

Abstract

The research results which are presented here corroborated the Marxian assertion that the history is mainly class struggle. This research was guided by the objectives of finding evidences between the fundaments of economic development registered on the governmental and academic scopes in the United States of America (USA) and economic policies implemented in Brazil between the decades of 1930 to 1980; identifying alignments between Brazil and USA also in sectors of political and cultural range which could support the imperialist project expressed in Taylorism/Fordism; finding, in the relations between USA and Brazil, occurrences of educational fundamentals which generates subalternity among the Brazilian workers; verify if, having ideologic influence, the imperialist ideology materialized itself in the legislation of the Brazilian educational policies focused on the vocational training at the secondary level of education. The theoretical reference used was the historical materialism, since this research sought comprehend the materialization of the imperialist ideology on the Brazilian educational legislation, unpinning the supremacy of the Taylorism/Fordism as the work and society’s regulatory principle between the decades 1930 to 1980. Such block housed international transactions, from supposed economic aids to military consortia. Inherent to the political doctrines that were enunciated by the presidents of the USA and the classic literature of economic liberalism, works about the rationalization of production, the training of workers according to the theory of human capital and statist developmentalism which ranked nations according to its industrialization levels gave academic support to the subjacent ideology in the legislation about vocational training in Brazil, regardless of the regime of government in force and the party affiliation of the rulers. In the context of this formation, a profile was considered appropriate to the Brazilian worker, who synthesized, in addition to training for operational functions in the predominantly foreign productive system, also aspects of fundamentalist Christianity and militaristic civism. Capitalism and hegemonic sectors of Christianity have become organic and have had their own expression in the doctrine of national security by stimulating and benefiting from conservative perspectives such as anti-communism. It was established in the educational legislation and governmental devices for a civic-religious formation averse to the communist ideology, thus, preventive to the revolution among the working class.