Gregório Nazianzeno Moreira de Queiroz e Vasconcelos, better known as Neno Vasco, was born in Penafiel on May 9, 1878. At the age of 8 or 9 he emigrated with his father and stepmother to the city of São Paulo, Brazil. A few years later, he returned to Portugal to complete his studies and live in his paternal grandparents' house in Amarante.[1]
He enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra on October 13, 1896, where he began to take classes. He had illustrious future colleagues and friends of Portuguese intellectuals such as the poet Teixeira de Pascoaes, Faria de Vasconcelos and António Resende. In 1900, during his visits to Porto, he met a group of libertarian propagandists in which Cristiano de Carvalho and Serafim Cardoso Lucena participated. In 1901 he completed his bachelor's degree.[1]
At the end of 1901 he returned to Brazil[2] where he quickly established contact with Italian anarchists through which he learned of the work of Errico Malatesta, who from that moment on exerted a profound influence on his thought.[1]
In the city of São Paulo, in 1902, he began to edit the Amigo do Povo newspaper[3] together with Benjamim Mota, Oreste Ristori, Giulio Sorelli, Tobia Boni, Ângelo Bandoni, Gigi Damiani and Ricardo Gonçalves. The journal's influence was immediate as one of the main spaces for dialogue on the Brazilian anarchist movement.[1]
Photograph of Vasco's family
In 1904 he translated into Portuguese from French the work Evolution, Revolution and the Anarchist Ideal by Élisée Reclus. In 1905 he married Mercedes Moscoso.[1]
When the First Portuguese Republic was proclaimed in 1910, Neno Vasco returned to Portugal where he continued to develop his anarchist militancy, collaborating with the Brazilian anarchist press as a correspondent. He became a constant contributor to the libertarian magazine A Sementeira in which he wrote about the social situation in Brazil.[1] As well as in the newspaper A Aurora (1910–1919) and the magazine Renovação (1925–1926).[4]
On September 15, 1920, Neno Vasco died of tuberculosis, a few months after his wife.[1]
"The Anarchist Conception of Syndicalism"
Throughout the 1910s, as an anarchist propagandist, Neno developed the anarchist conception of the trade union by addressing the ideas of Malatesta, among other authors, about revolutionary syndicalism. At the end of his life, he began to work on a work, which would remain unfinished, on the role that anarchists should play in mass organizations, more specifically in unions, as well as addressing doctrine and disputes with Marxists in the International Workingmen's Association (IWA). In this work Neno defended that "the workers union is the essential group, the specific organ of class struggle and the reorganizing nucleus of the future society"[5] which must participate in the "solidarity struggle of the workers against the bosses" through direct action.[5] The role of anarchists in these unions must be propaganda, spreading anarchist ideas and warding off the reformist, parliamentary tendency of political parties that only defended full participation in the bourgeois social system, a harmony between capital and labor. Therefore, the workers' organization must "live independently of any political party or doctrinal grouping" in order to emphasize the revolutionary character, "resistance must be the only union function".[5]
Cooperatives and Mutualism
In some paragraphs of this book, the author addresses mutualism and cooperatives, stating that "they serve and facilitate capitalist exploitation, becoming factors of resignation and passivity".[5] For Neno, these organizations can be even more harmful than corporatism, because "it naturally tends towards the adaptation of the wage earner to the bourgeois regime, even favoring submission to the conditions imposed by the employers".[5] In addition to promoting the creation of a "parasitic permanent bureaucracy", which, sooner or later, will "develop the commercial spirit and corrupt the best intentions".[5]
Social Democracy and Parliamentarianism
Criticism of workers' reforms are constant throughout the book, stating that "the "workers' law" only serves to deceive the unconscious masses by giving a false prestige to governments and parliamentary institutions and tending to divert the people from direct organization and action."[5] For Neno, the law is only applied when the proletariat wants this reform to be approved, when workers have the strength to impose their will on the rulers.
As for the parliament, to Neno this was nothing more than a tool of the bourgeoisie to appease the workers' struggles, and corrupt the combative spirit of the social movements:
"Parliament is the work and instrument of political and financial oligarchies – and everything it touches is corrupted and impotent. And what seems to remain intact and incorrupt in it only maintains the disastrous prestige of a fiction. Revolution, robust child of the circumstances and will of men, the revolution that marks the painful birth, but necessary and welcome, of all societies." p.151[5]
Works
Bibliography
A Academia de Coimbra ao Povo Portuguez, 1901.
Geórgias: ao trabalhador rural, Terra Livre, Lisboa, 1913.
Da Porta da Europa (factos e ideias: a questão religiosa, a questão política, a questão económica 1911–1912), Bibl. Libertas, Lisboa, 1913.
Greve de Inquilinos: farça em 1 acto, Editorial A Batalha, 1923.
Pecado de Simonia, 1907.
References
^ abcdefgSamis, Alexandre (2009). Minha Pátria é o Mundo Inteiro (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Letra Livre. ISBN9789899511484. OCLC 382406472.
^Freire, João (1984). "Prefácio". In Vasco, Neno (ed.). Concepção Anarquista do Sindicalismo (in Portuguese). Porto: Afrontamento. p. 12. OCLC 12104655.
^Toledo, Edilene T. (1993). O Amigo do Povo: grupos de afinidade e a propaganda anarquista em São Paulo nos primeiros anos deste século (Master's) (in Portuguese). São Paulo: University of Campinas. pp. 50–52. OCLC 55925286.
^Mangorrinha, Jorge (March 1, 2016). "Ficha histórica:Renovação : revista quinzenal de artes, litertura e atualidades (1925–1926)" (PDF). Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa (in Portuguese). Retrieved May 18, 2018.
^ abcdefghVasco, Neno (1984). . Porto: Afrontamento. Archived from the original on October 3, 2008.
^Black, João (April 27, 2018). "Sindicalismo Revolucionário – Neno Vasco". Apoio Mútuo (in Portuguese). Retrieved August 3, 2021.
Bibliography
Dulles, John W. F. (1980). Anarquistas e Comunistas no Brasil, 1900–1935 (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira. OCLC 760667226.
Oliveira, Tiago Bernardon (2018). ""Anarquismo e Revolução": militância anarquista e a estratégia do sindicalismo revolucionário no Brasil da Primeira República". In Santos, Kauan Willian; Silva, Rafael Viana (eds.). História do anarquismo e do sindicalismo de intenção revolucionária no Brasil: novas perspectivas. Archivos de Historia del Movimiento Obrero y la Izquierda (in Portuguese). Curitiba: Prismas. pp. 207–242. ISSN 2313-9749.
Samis, Alexandre (2004). "Pavilhão negro sobre pátria oliva: sindicalismo e anarquismo no Brasil". In Colombo, Eduardo (ed.). História do Movimento Operário Revolucionário (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Imaginário. pp. 125–189. ISBN8576630052. OCLC 82217392.
Samis, Alexandre (2017). "Contra limites e fronteiras: Neno Vasco e o anarquismo em dois continentes" (PDF). Navegar (in Portuguese). 3 (4): 10–38.
Samis, Alexandre (2018). Minha pátria é o mundo inteiro: Neno Vasco, o anarquismo e o sindicalismo revolucionário (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Imaginário. ISBN9789899511484. OCLC 382406472.
External links
Neno Vasco - Anarchosyndicalism and Anarchist Communism.
Biografia de Neno Vasco no E-books Brasil.
Maré Negra 1: Memória Anarquista do Centro Galego do Rio de Janeiro (1903–1922) no Ainfos.
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Edgar Rodrigues e o Movimento Anarquista no Brasil, entrevista por José Maria Carvalho Ferreira.
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February 20, 2023
neno, vasco, 1878, 1878, 1920, september, 1920, poet, lawyer, journalist, anarchist, writer, ardent, revolutionary, syndicalist, activist, born, penafiel, portugal, emigrated, brazil, where, established, series, projects, with, anarchists, that, country, autho. Neno Vasco 1878 05 09 May 9 1878 1920 09 15 September 15 1920 was a poet lawyer journalist anarchist writer and ardent revolutionary syndicalist activist born in Penafiel Portugal He emigrated to Brazil where he established a series of projects with the anarchists of that country He was the author of the Portuguese translation of The Internationale which is more widespread in Portuguese speaking countries and was said to have been one of the most important figures of Anarchism in Portugal Neno VascoBornGregorio Nazianzeno Moreira de Queiroz e Vasconcelos 1878 05 09 May 9 1878Penafiel District of Porto Kingdom of PortugalDiedSeptember 15 1920 1920 09 15 aged 42 Sao Romao do Coronado Trofa First Portuguese RepublicNationalityPortugueseOccupation s Writer journalist translatorMovementAnarcho syndicalismSpouseMercedes Moscoso Contents 1 Biography 2 The Anarchist Conception of Syndicalism 2 1 Cooperatives and Mutualism 2 2 Social Democracy and Parliamentarianism 3 Works 3 1 Bibliography 3 2 Translations 3 3 Theater plays 4 References 5 Bibliography 6 External linksBiography EditGregorio Nazianzeno Moreira de Queiroz e Vasconcelos better known as Neno Vasco was born in Penafiel on May 9 1878 At the age of 8 or 9 he emigrated with his father and stepmother to the city of Sao Paulo Brazil A few years later he returned to Portugal to complete his studies and live in his paternal grandparents house in Amarante 1 He enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra on October 13 1896 where he began to take classes He had illustrious future colleagues and friends of Portuguese intellectuals such as the poet Teixeira de Pascoaes Faria de Vasconcelos and Antonio Resende In 1900 during his visits to Porto he met a group of libertarian propagandists in which Cristiano de Carvalho and Serafim Cardoso Lucena participated In 1901 he completed his bachelor s degree 1 At the end of 1901 he returned to Brazil 2 where he quickly established contact with Italian anarchists through which he learned of the work of Errico Malatesta who from that moment on exerted a profound influence on his thought 1 In the city of Sao Paulo in 1902 he began to edit the Amigo do Povo newspaper 3 together with Benjamim Mota Oreste Ristori Giulio Sorelli Tobia Boni Angelo Bandoni Gigi Damiani and Ricardo Goncalves The journal s influence was immediate as one of the main spaces for dialogue on the Brazilian anarchist movement 1 Photograph of Vasco s family In 1904 he translated into Portuguese from French the work Evolution Revolution and the Anarchist Ideal by Elisee Reclus In 1905 he married Mercedes Moscoso 1 When the First Portuguese Republic was proclaimed in 1910 Neno Vasco returned to Portugal where he continued to develop his anarchist militancy collaborating with the Brazilian anarchist press as a correspondent He became a constant contributor to the libertarian magazine A Sementeira in which he wrote about the social situation in Brazil 1 As well as in the newspaper A Aurora 1910 1919 and the magazine Renovacao 1925 1926 4 On September 15 1920 Neno Vasco died of tuberculosis a few months after his wife 1 The Anarchist Conception of Syndicalism EditThroughout the 1910s as an anarchist propagandist Neno developed the anarchist conception of the trade union by addressing the ideas of Malatesta among other authors about revolutionary syndicalism At the end of his life he began to work on a work which would remain unfinished on the role that anarchists should play in mass organizations more specifically in unions as well as addressing doctrine and disputes with Marxists in the International Workingmen s Association IWA In this work Neno defended that the workers union is the essential group the specific organ of class struggle and the reorganizing nucleus of the future society 5 which must participate in the solidarity struggle of the workers against the bosses through direct action 5 The role of anarchists in these unions must be propaganda spreading anarchist ideas and warding off the reformist parliamentary tendency of political parties that only defended full participation in the bourgeois social system a harmony between capital and labor Therefore the workers organization must live independently of any political party or doctrinal grouping in order to emphasize the revolutionary character resistance must be the only union function 5 Cooperatives and Mutualism Edit In some paragraphs of this book the author addresses mutualism and cooperatives stating that they serve and facilitate capitalist exploitation becoming factors of resignation and passivity 5 For Neno these organizations can be even more harmful than corporatism because it naturally tends towards the adaptation of the wage earner to the bourgeois regime even favoring submission to the conditions imposed by the employers 5 In addition to promoting the creation of a parasitic permanent bureaucracy which sooner or later will develop the commercial spirit and corrupt the best intentions 5 Social Democracy and Parliamentarianism Edit Criticism of workers reforms are constant throughout the book stating that the workers law only serves to deceive the unconscious masses by giving a false prestige to governments and parliamentary institutions and tending to divert the people from direct organization and action 5 For Neno the law is only applied when the proletariat wants this reform to be approved when workers have the strength to impose their will on the rulers As for the parliament to Neno this was nothing more than a tool of the bourgeoisie to appease the workers struggles and corrupt the combative spirit of the social movements Parliament is the work and instrument of political and financial oligarchies and everything it touches is corrupted and impotent And what seems to remain intact and incorrupt in it only maintains the disastrous prestige of a fiction Revolution robust child of the circumstances and will of men the revolution that marks the painful birth but necessary and welcome of all societies p 151 5 Works EditBibliography Edit A Academia de Coimbra ao Povo Portuguez 1901 Georgias ao trabalhador rural Terra Livre Lisboa 1913 Da Porta da Europa factos e ideias a questao religiosa a questao politica a questao economica 1911 1912 Bibl Libertas Lisboa 1913 Sindicalismo Revolucionario 1914 6 A Concepcao Anarquista do Sindicalismo Editorial A Batalha Lisboa 1920 2ª edicao Afrontamento Porto 1984 In 2007 a Brazilian version used in union training courses was published Translations Edit Elisee Reclus Evolution Revolution and the Anarchist Ideal Biblioteca Sociologica S Paulo 1904 The Internationale 1909 Theater plays Edit Anedota em 1 acto 1911 Greve de Inquilinos farca em 1 acto Editorial A Batalha 1923 Pecado de Simonia 1907 References Edit a b c d e f g Samis Alexandre 2009 Minha Patria e o Mundo Inteiro in Portuguese Lisbon Letra Livre ISBN 9789899511484 OCLC 382406472 Freire Joao 1984 Prefacio In Vasco Neno ed Concepcao Anarquista do Sindicalismo in Portuguese Porto Afrontamento p 12 OCLC 12104655 Toledo Edilene T 1993 O Amigo do Povo grupos de afinidade e a propaganda anarquista em Sao Paulo nos primeiros anos deste seculo Master s in Portuguese Sao Paulo University of Campinas pp 50 52 OCLC 55925286 Mangorrinha Jorge March 1 2016 Ficha historica Renovacao revista quinzenal de artes litertura e atualidades 1925 1926 PDF Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa in Portuguese Retrieved May 18 2018 a b c d e f g h Vasco Neno 1984 Concepcao Anarquista do Sindicalismo Porto Afrontamento Archived from the original on October 3 2008 Black Joao April 27 2018 Sindicalismo Revolucionario Neno Vasco Apoio Mutuo in Portuguese Retrieved August 3 2021 Bibliography EditDulles John W F 1980 Anarquistas e Comunistas no Brasil 1900 1935 in Portuguese Rio de Janeiro Nova Fronteira OCLC 760667226 Oliveira Tiago Bernardon 2018 Anarquismo e Revolucao militancia anarquista e a estrategia do sindicalismo revolucionario no Brasil da Primeira Republica In Santos Kauan Willian Silva Rafael Viana eds Historia do anarquismo e do sindicalismo de intencao revolucionaria no Brasil novas perspectivas Archivos de Historia del Movimiento Obrero y la Izquierda in Portuguese Curitiba Prismas pp 207 242 ISSN 2313 9749 Samis Alexandre 2004 Pavilhao negro sobre patria oliva sindicalismo e anarquismo no Brasil In Colombo Eduardo ed Historia do Movimento Operario Revolucionario in Portuguese Sao Paulo Imaginario pp 125 189 ISBN 8576630052 OCLC 82217392 Samis Alexandre 2017 Contra limites e fronteiras Neno Vasco e o anarquismo em dois continentes PDF Navegar in Portuguese 3 4 10 38 Samis Alexandre 2018 Minha patria e o mundo inteiro Neno Vasco o anarquismo e o sindicalismo revolucionario in Portuguese Sao Paulo Imaginario ISBN 9789899511484 OCLC 382406472 External links EditNeno Vasco Anarchosyndicalism and Anarchist Communism Biografia de Neno Vasco no E books Brasil Mare Negra 1 Memoria Anarquista do Centro Galego do Rio de Janeiro 1903 1922 no Ainfos Em torno do jornal O Amigo do Povo os grupos de afinidade e a propaganda anarquista em Sao Paulo nos primeiros anos deste seculo por Edilene Teresinha Toledo Edgar Rodrigues e o Movimento Anarquista no Brasil entrevista por Jose Maria Carvalho Ferreira Imprensa Operaria por Clara Meirelles Joana de Paula Miranda Julia Lemos Lima e Kelly Fernandes Valente Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Neno Vasco amp oldid 1090701115, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
