Abstract
Clóvis Moura (1925–2003) was a working class intellectual who immersed himself in the study of Brazilian history and contemporary reality, producing historiographical and theoretical works of great importance. Moura’s primordial contribution was to identify the nature of the capitalist mode of production in Brazil that combined slavery and the elaboration of a particular ideology of racism in the transition to wage labor. Moura identified the conservative character of the Brazilian bourgeoisie that had been forged in the colonial path and which, after the abolition of slavery, articulated and implemented an Aryanization policy, with far-reaching consequences for the evolution of the Brazilian social formation in the twentieth century. Moura provided rigorous critiques of the ideologues of the Brazilian bourgeoisie, at the same time as he illuminated the struggles of the descendants of African slaves at the margins of a developing capitalist economy. His contributions remain fundamental to the analysis of the contemporary Brazilian reality.
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