The idea that making it in the world is getting to the point where your rights are always valid, but the laws don't necessarily apply to you if you step outside of them. The figure of the mamata can describe everyone from like a welfare recipient and the racialized beneficiary of affirmative action to a corrupt elite business man and politicians. "This is how people imagine our society, or envisioned society, is working," she says.
How neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive neoliberalism—and how those reactionary politics from below converge with those generated from above. Political theorist Rodrigo Nunes analyzes Bolsonarismo (the ideology and politics surrounding far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro) and far-right politics everywhere.
Read Rodrigo's essays:
radicalphilosophy.com/article/of-what-is-bolsonaro-the-name
publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial
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