Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho (born April 29, 1947, in the city of Campinas, in the state of São Paulo) is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Olavo de Carvalho began working as a journalist before he turned 18. During the Brazilian military dictatorship, Carvalho was a member of the then outlawed Brazilian Communist Party, and protected fellow militants from the regime. . He left the Party in 1968,...
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Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho (born April 29, 1947, in the city of Campinas, in the state of São Paulo) is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Olavo de Carvalho began working as a journalist before he turned 18. During the Brazilian military dictatorship, Carvalho was a member of the then outlawed Brazilian Communist Party, and protected fellow militants from the regime. . He left the Party in 1968, and later, he gradually distanced himself both from the leftist world view and from politics in general. His right-wing views are now explicit. During that period, he began teaching philosophy to small classes. His published works from that period are short treatises, destined to his circle of students.
He began writing and speaking to the general public at the urging of his friend, the poet Bruno Tolentino. His first major work is A Nova Era e a Revolução Cultural (1993), a study on the flaws of the theories of Fritjof Capra and Antonio...
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