''Como age um verdadeiro deputado do povo e do proletariado?'': a cultura política comunista expressada por meio da trajetória parlamentar de Carlos Marighella (1945-1948)

Abstract

This research aimed to identify possible forms of reproduction of the general values of the communist political culture through parliamentary performance of Carlos Marighella. Therefore, in an attempt to answer the extent he shared or reproduced the common precepts to that culture and with what elements he could innovate, this work intended to launch a new look on the course of this political leader in Brazilian history. Accordingly, was analyzed its performance as constituent deputy in the short time lapse on what it operates outside the clandestinity within the PCB: from 1945 to 1948. It was used as main sources the Tribuna Popular of Rio de Janeiro newspaper in the editions of 1945, 1946 and 1947, the Annals of the National Constituent Assembly of 1946 and the Carlos Marighella autobiography handwritten in Spanish in 1954. As a result of this research, it was possible to better understand the communist political culture, which sometimes, is confused with the very image of Marighella, how great was the perception that it is also an important component of this culture; beyond the various forms with which it was expressed by the communist deputy. Thus, the political culture offered more satisfactory explanations – as well to Marighella's political behavior, as his colleagues on the PCB bench - than other more traditional analyzes could offer. What was also clear were the similarities between the symbologies used, the myths and the identical visions of the past and political projects directed to the future (MOTTA, 2009, p.21), developed by Carlos Marighella and that political grouping.