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Olavo de Carvalho Quotes

1947–2022 Brazil

Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho (29 April 1947 – 24 January 2022), better known as Olavo de Carvalho, was a Brazilian essayist whose interests included historical philosophy, the history of revolutionary movements, Kremlinology, the traditionalist school, comparative religion, psychology, and philosophical anthropology. He was known in Brazil for his conservative political stance, and for being a critic of the political Left.

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If you want to argue with me, either you respect me, or hold your tears after I am done with you.

This is a reading program that can be accomplished in four or five years by a good student. I do not know, either in the Brazilian right or left, anyone, absolutely anyone, who has accomplished it.

Good books on the history of communist regimes written from a non-apologetic point of view.

The classics of Marxism: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong.

Main Currents of Marxism, by Leszek Kolakowski.

Books by the most famous critics of Marxism, like Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises, Raymond Aron, Roger Scruton, Nicolai Berdiaev and so many others.

The most important Marxist philosophers: Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Lefebvre, Althusser.

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