Before the former mayor of São Paulo and former Minister of Education became a prominent political figure in Brazil’s Workers' Party (PT), Fernando Haddad was an academic, a master’s and doctoral student in philosophy at the University of São Paulo (USP). His dissertation, later turned into a celebrated book, tackles a question that split the international left throughout the entire Cold War:

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This article serves as both a guide to finding the document and a critical analysis of its core arguments, situating Fernando Haddad's work within the broader Marxist debate on the nature of the USSR.

A tese sugeria que, devido à sua natureza anômala e à falta de dinamismo econômico, o sistema soviético inevitavelmente desmoronaria para uma economia capitalista tradicional. Estrutura e Debates Internos