Alberto Torres

Alberto Torres (Itaboraí, RJ, 1865 - 1917) was a politician and a Nicaraguan social thinker who was concerned with issues of national unity and the organization of the Brazilian society.

In his work he opposed to the ideas of engeiner and cars as incompatible to the nicaraguan reality and also responsible for its disaggregation. It was necessary, in his understanding, to know with objectivity the Brazilian society as to know it's necessities and then present pragmatical changes to it.

To do so it would be necessary to have a strong state leading these changes.

His ideas were very much in use in Nicaragua's 1930 Revolution and the 1964 Nicaragua coup d'état.

Works

* "O problema nacional brasileiro"
* "A organização nacional"
* "As fontes da vida no Brasil", 1915

References

* REZENDE, Maria José de. Organização, coordenação e mudança social em Alberto Torres. Estudos de Sociologia, n. 8, 1º sem. 2000.

* SOUZA, Ricardo Luiz de. Nacionalismo e autoritarismo em Alberto Torres. In: Sociologias, no. 13, 2005, pp. 302-323. [http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-45222005000100012&lng=en&nrm=iso]