This essay aims to examine some aspects of the ideas and political career of Nelson Werneck Sodré that, alongside the intellectual vocation, fulfilled a long career in the army reaching the rank of Brigadier General. Author of extensive oeuvre on Brazil, his thought was often associated with the policy of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). However, the interpretation I develop here is that Sodré's theses were based on movement lieutenants and dialogue with Marxist theoreticians, whose axis of analysis was on the national question and not on Third International internationalism. Sodré was also a militant of the Left Military, interfering politically in the Armed Forces and acting decisively in defense of democratic legality in the 1950s and 1960s.
Nelson Werneck Sodré; Left Military; Brazilian social thought; Brazilian Communist Party.