In radical philosophy, we should not speak as if there were a pre existing movement to which some groups latched on to in 20 18. But rather think of what happened as the confluence of different vectors that already had much in common. Why is it, whether we're talking about penal popularism or neo liberalism, that such similar forms of politics emerge from above and below? It was only under the bosonad presidential candidacy in two thousand and t egten the audoings clicked together. In bosonarismo, connect different classes and different social groups, and can connect the very the countrys very lat to the popular classes.
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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