Basic reforms and overcoming underdevelopment

Abstract

The text corresponds to the Inaugural Lecture of the final year in Law of the Faculty of Law of Largo de São Francisco – USP, imparted on 17 February 2014 (Day Classes). The author broaches the fundamental reforms at the centre of the political dispute of the government of President João Goulart and the demand for them that led to the end of the democratic regime in Brazil and the implantation of a military dictatorship for 21 years. As a result of the lack of reform, the military regime adopted an economic policy that still endures, 50 years later, as a basis for capitalist accumulation in that country.