New liberal discourse has worked within this arrangement, or this constellation of elements. Because you have a strong resurgence of new liberal discourse from two thousand 14 to two thousand 18 in brazil. But the economic crisis that began in two thousand 15 was really damaging for a kind of what you could call popular interponerialism that had flourished during the lula years. And so poor people who had invested in creating their own small businesses suddenly they found, in these discourse, an explanation to the situation tat they were finding themselves in.
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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