Abstract
The article discusses the problem of book censorship during the first phase of the military regime in Brazil and how publishers and businessmen in the publishing industry created commercial strategies to commercialize works classified as subversive by the dictatorship’s control agencies. For this reason, Editora Civilização Brasileira and its owner, Ênio Silveira, become central objects of analysis that allow us to understand the dynamics working in the field of the intellectual left, formed from the ambivalent association between engagement and the market.
Military dictatorship; Intellectuals; Book Publishing market; Communism