Title, on the last century we haved lots of communist revolutions and countries, even if most of them did not last long enough. So lots of important persons where behind it, just like Lenin started the USSR and Mao started the communist goverment of China. So who are they? Where they are from? Which one of those less known persons you know?

  • @redshiftedbrazilian
    11•2 years ago

    Luis Carlos Prestes, Carlos Marighella, Olga Benário and Paulo Freire

    These are all Brazilians

    Olga Benário was from Germany actually, but their communist party sent her to Brazil to help our communist party, where she met Luis Carlos Prestes. They tried a coup (the Intentona Comunista) against Getulio Vargas dictatorship in 1935 but it failed and they were both arrested in 1936. Olga would later find out she was pregnant from Prestes in prison.

    Vargas sent her back to Germany, knowing that she was jewish and a communist, and she was arrested by the Gestapo as soon as she arrived. Her daughter was given to her grandmother months after she was born and Olga was murdered in a concentration camp in 1942.

    Prestes was arrested in Brazil but was latter released. He is one of the most influential politicians of the 20th century and spent many years in the illegality. He was exiled in the soviet union during the 64 dictatorship (not the Vargas one) and came back in 1979. From 1943 to 1980 he was the chairman of the Brazilian Communist party. He died in 1990, before the fall of the USSR.

    Paulo Freire is one of the most, if not THE most, important people when it comes to education and pedagogy. This dude taught people to read in 45 days (!) and lead a literacy effort that helped many, but unfortunatelly it ended in 1964, with the US-backed military coup.

    Carlos Marighella fought against the military dictatorship and has a book called the “minimanual of the urban guerrilla”. Unfortunately he was murdered by the fascists in power.

    All of them really fucking based.

    EDIT: Just realised OP is also Brazilian so he probably knows about them, I’ll leave it here anyway for those interested in knowing new comrades

  • @huntarrr
    8•2 years ago

    Amilcar Cabral. He led Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde in an anti-colonialist movement against the Portuguese Colonialists. He was an expert in dialectics and formed a revolutionary theory specific to the conditions of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. His work went on to inform Paulo Freire’s thought.