O aparelho estatal de coerção da ditadura civil-militar de 1964: uma análise do Departamento de Ordem Política e Social do Maranhão / DOPS

Abstract

This following text seeks thinking about Departamento de Ordem Política e Social do Maranhão DOPS/MA, through the Gramscian concepts of Hegemony, Private Hegemony Apparatus and, finally, State Apparatus of Coercion, being the most important concept for the development of this work. This research will also reflect on how repression became an important tool for the maintenance of the civil-military regime launched in Brazil in 1964. For such a reflection to be constructed, it starts with the historiographical analysis of literature that discusses the insertion and the continuity of the civil-military dictatorship, with the objective of explaining which political, economic and social aspects were fundamental for the construction of an authoritarian regime. In addition, this work will seek to raise a theoretical reflection through the analysis of the structure set up to assure the 1964 coup, starting from the idea that comprises the execution of the Civil-Military Dictatorship as a thoroughly thought out project, with the purpose of securing class interests. Through the documentary analysis of the sources available in the Public Archive of the State of Maranhão, this work will also seek to discuss how the action of the Departamento de Ordem Política e Social do Maranhão collaborated to spread the ideology of the Dictatorship, emphasizing the coercive and sanitary role of the DOPS / MA in confluence with other DOPS, spread throughout Brazil.