#darcy may look a bit idealistic here but his book is AWESOME in my opinion for a socialist perspective on brazilian nation-building

[sudensk-the-stallionist]

"No people who have gone through this as part of their daily lives, over the centuries, would emerge from it without being indelibly marked. All of us, Brazilians, are flesh of the flesh of those tortured blacks and natives. All of us Brazilians are, equally, the possessed hand that tortured them. The most tender sweetness and the most atrocious cruelty have combined here to make us the sensitive and suffering people that we are and the insensitive and brutal people that we also are. Descendants of slaves and slave masters, we will always be servants of the evil distilled and installed in us, both through the feeling of pain intentionally produced to hurt more, and through the exercise of brutality over men, women, and children who have been turned into fodder for our fury. The most terrible of our legacies is that of always carrying with us the scar of a torturer imprinted on our souls and ready to explode in racist and classist brutality. It is she who still shines today in so many Brazilian authorities predisposed to torture, abuse and hurt the poor who fall into their hands. However, by provoking growing indignation, she will give us the strength tomorrow to contain the possessed and finally form here a solidary society." - Darcy Ribeiro, The Brazilian People