I think there was a moment in which the left could have seized on that as a broader critique of the way capitalism plays out in brazila. The right recognized the appeal and the power of these critiques as an anti political argument, so it's all bad. I would also add, just on top of that, something that's obvious to any left us, which is the reactionary impulses of the middle class in going oto the sixties and beyond. So having like rakinli there, ou know, running the economic system of the country was a bad call, like from the beginning.
Bolsonaro is presiding over mass COVID deaths and the destruction of the Amazon. Lula is free and polling way ahead for next year's presidential election. But the conditions that brought the far-right to power remain in place. Sociologist Sabrina Fernandes and historian Andre Pagliarini on Brazil.
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