Political and intelectual experiences of formation of a communist: family, ethnicity, readings and student militancy of Jacob Gorender, an young member of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) in Salvador (1923-1943)

Abstract

Jacob Gorender, communist militant and Marxist theorist, is known specially by his historiographical production starting from the 1970’s, as well as his role in the PCB and PCBR’s ruling circles between the last 1950’s and the 1960’s. On this paper is studied a less known period in Gorender’s trajectory: his political and intellectual making of, between the 1920’s and the 1940’s Salvador, seeing his situations as a member of a working class family, as well as a member of the local jewish community, in a social tribulation time. Is an object of attention Gorender's materialistic readings when he was a teenager, as well as the Marxist texts that he contacted as a student activist of the Communist Party in Law School. The particularities in PCB's trajectory in Salvador are discussed too, even as the limits and possibilities that Jacob Gorender faced in his Marxist making of in the period and site in study.

Keywords

• jacob gorender
• biography
• brazilian communist party (pcb)