Ruy Fausto, remando contra a maré

The article makes some remarks about Ruy Fausto’s trajectory as a public intellectual and his relationship with the Left. It stresses his reexamination of Marx’s critical approach to capitalism, the analysis of the twentieth-century totalitarianisms as well as the European Social Democracy, and his criticism of the Brazilian Left and the PT governments. The article suggests an additional layer of interpretation to Ruy Fausto’s philosophical thought, pointing out how the political issues were at the core of his worldview.