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/292/ Bungazão 2022: Unrealistic Pragmatism, ft. Unbridled Possibility Collective
🕑 Added 2022-09-29 16:06:32 +0000 UTCOn Brazil's containment of the crisis.
We talk to members of the Unbridled Possibility Collective (Fabio Luis B. Santos | Thais Pavez | Daniel Cunha) about their intervention, trying to look beyond this week's election in Brazil.
What does establishment support for Lula this time round represent? Is Lula guilty of "unrealistic pragmatism"? How will Brazil react to a potential coup attempt by Bolsonaro?
And we look at the deeper social and structural context: what are the features of the Brazilian "war of all against all"? How does Bolsonaro accelerate these tendencies?
We conclude by looking at the possibility of a new 'Pink Wave' in Latin America and examining the state of the Brazilian left.
Readings:
- After the Election: a Contribution to the Debate, Unbridled Possibility Collective, Damage
- /189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
- Brazil's Arrested Development, Alex Hochuli, Jacobin
- Policing Bolsonaro's Brazil, Alex Hochuli, Verso
Comments
Elias Braun
You often talk about the Brazilian elite's reluctance to enable development, about how it's the worst bourgeoisie in the world, etc. I'd love an episode on the historical roots of that.
Paul Brewer
Also, why are there two Communist parties in Brazil? (I mean, I know why, but I am interested in the post-split trajectories, which seem surprisingly contradictory to what I would have anticipated.)
