Abstract:
I comment on the bourgeois old age of Brazilian
politics, something that is recognized by the
most demanding mentors of neoliberal policies,
not only because of the efficiency with which
Lulismo mediates between the interests of
big capital and the inevitable products of the
pattern of accumulation that is currently being
imposed (structural unemployment, hunger, and
environmental destruction) but also because its
greatest gift is to do all this without provoking any
substantial change in a country historically marked
by chronic colonialism, endemic social inequality,
a low ranking in the production of capital goods,
scant generation of technology, and weak stability
in its domestic economy and politics.
Keywords: Lulismo. Politics. Social movements. |