José Paulo Netto (born November 29, 1947) is a Brazilian writer, social worker and university teacher, known for his reception and dissemination of György Lukács in Brazil, and later for his studies of the work of Karl Marx.

[1] A member of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), Netto is currently one of the main researchers of Karl Marx 's works in Brazil[4][5] and is also responsible for translations of texts by classic authors such as Friedrich Engels and Vladmir Lenin.

[6][7] Born in Juiz de Fora, a city in the interior of Minas Gerais, in 1947, Netto grew up in the Vitorino Braga neighborhood.

[14] Netto translated works by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Marxist authors, as well as preparing anthologies of Marx-Engels and György Lukács.

[2][15] He gained ground in the public debate for his contribution to the dissemination of the Marxist tradition in Brazil, and is considered to have a didactic and non-reductionist way of communicating.