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Fictious Polarizations
The Far Right, Corporate Power, and Social Struggles in Brazil
From: The Socialist Register 2022
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Ana Garcia, Virginia Fontes, and Rejane Hoeveler carefully unpack the ‘fictitious polarizations’ involved in the electoral opposition between the right and the ‘centre’ opposition that is being pulled to the right in quarrels over ‘cultural values’, while remaining within the confines of the hegemony of the corporate sector in Brazil. The chapter follows the far-right rule of Jair Bolsonaro. Polarization has taken on multiple meanings and this contrasts, they argue, with real polarizations resulting from an organized and combative working class that develops, invoking Gramsci’s term, a ‘spirit of cleavage’, in being conscious of, and determined to pursue, its class interests. Topics discussed include “Brazilianization”, the far right, corporate power, social verse political struggles, the Brazilian working class, neoliberalism, and much more.
