1 The formation of the public manager in Brazil: a worrying bundle to the Brazilian developmentalism Author: Taylisi de Souza Corrêa Leite, PhD Abstract The object of the proposed analysis refers to the pedagogical program and the curricular structure of graduations in Public Administration in Brazil, based on the experience of the exponent as a teacher in the course of Public Management at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (GPDES-UFRJ). Graduations in public administration have the scope of distancing themselves from the traditional formation in management, linked to the administration of companies, offering an interdisciplinary formation, that encompasses accounting sciences, economic, social, legal, of the administration and planning. However, in the end, they reproduce the same logic of reproduction of capital in the training of undergraduates. The developmental proposal of the courses is linked to liberal economic models, although heterodox ones, influenced by proposals of Keynesian and ECLAC´s economic policies. The education attached to the developmental paradigm does not prepare professionals for other political and economic contexts, such as what Brazil currently lives. And, after all, the very conception of development is linked to the protection of productive capital, which creates value from the commodity form. Accompanying the Marxist reflections, the reproduction of capital through productive processes, due to its inherent contours, makes economic and social development in capitalism mutually exclusive. In addition, development policies have historically shown a state strategy (as a political form) to conceal the class struggle, fulfilling its superstructural role in the reproduction of capital, and avoiding its overcoming. Still, believing that legal form can guarantee inclusion and equality denotes an ideologically naive belief about its role in capitalist societies. Finally, from a Marxist perspective, our criticism consists in demonstrating that education for Public Administration in Brazil, although it is intended to be the vanguard, will never be emancipatory, since it is tied to the liberal conceptions of political economy and development, subsuming itself in pure ideology. Keywords: Public Administration – Class Struggle – Developmentalism