ABSTRACT
This paper contrasts the works of Gilberto Freyre and Florestan Fernandes as antagonistic social proposals for Brazil. On the one hand, Freyre’s patriarchal project, grounded on the arbitrariness of the heirs of slave maters, skewed the meaning of democracy. On the other hand, Florestan identified in colonization the foundations of the antisocial order and the social dilemmas that must be overcome so that the people, especially the black people, emerge as protagonists of a process against the bourgeois order.
KEYWORDS
Colonization; revolution; democracy