Positivismo, trabalhismo, populismo: a ideologia das elites gaúchas

This article approaches some aspects of the political and ideological arrengements of the elites in Rio Grande do Sul in the 20 th century, criticising the existing literature. Thus it refutes the proposition that the laborism had its origin in the republican positivism, showing that the treatment given b) the gaúcho government in 1917 to the workmen on strike was an episodical event and not the rule in the period. The article aiso shows the difference between developmentalism and laborism, and points out that the influence of positivism happened mast!) in the former rather tham in the latter, disagreeing that the positivism was taken to the federal government by Vargas after 1930.This article approaches some aspects of the political and ideological arrengements of the elites in Rio Grande do Sul in the 20 th century, criticising the existing literature. Thus it refutes the proposition that the laborism had its origin in the republican positivism, showing that the treatment given b) the gaúcho government in 1917 to the workmen on strike was an episodical event and not the rule in the period. The article aiso shows the difference between developmentalism and laborism, and points out that the influence of positivism happened mast!) in the former rather tham in the latter, disagreeing that the positivism was taken to the federal government by Vargas after 1930