Victor Strazzeri is a doctoral candidate at the Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenchaft at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on ‘Max Weber and German Social Democracy’. He has an M.A. in Social Work from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a B.A. in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. His interests are classical social theory, social movements, labour history and political theory.