The Problematic of Marxisms and Their Incorporation into Brazilian Social Work

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the issue of the “Marxisms,” their distortions and appropriations in Latin America, especially in Brazil and in Social Work. The adopted methodology consists of a bibliographic review on the subject. The study argues that the official version of Marxism, disseminated as a state ideology under Stalin’s leadership, negatively influenced its reception in Latin America. It concludes that, in Brazilian Social Work, within the autocratic-bourgeois context, this incorporation occurred in a problematic manner, particularly during the initial stages of engagement with the Marxist tradition. However, with the inclusion of Social Work in the university and the gradual process of the country's redemocratization, both a more qualified dialogue with different strands of the Marxist tradition and a theoretical-political professional maturation were consolidated.