Preface to the English Edition
List of Tables and Charts
part 1
Reform and Social Classes in the pt Governments
1 State, Bourgeoisie, and Neoliberalism in the Lula Government
1 The Bloc in Power in the Neoliberal Period
2 The Political Ascension of the Industrial Bourgeoisie and Agribusiness under the Lula Government
3 Political Rise, but No Hegemony Established
4 The Political Regime and the Hegemony of Financial Capital
5 Final Considerations
2 The Lula Governments The New “National Bourgeoisie” in Power
1 fhc, Lula, and Disputes within the Bourgeoisie
2 The Political Relations of the Big Internal Bourgeoisie with the Lula Government
3 Contradictions within the Internal Bourgeoisie and the Neodevelopmentalist Front
3 The Political Bases of Neodevelopmentalism
1 The Neodevelopmentalist Political Front
2 The Neodevelopmentalist Program
3 The Classes and Class Fractions Integrating the Neodevelopmentalist Front
4 The Contradictions in the Core of the Front
4 Lulism, Populism, and Bonapartism
1 The Concepts
2 Varguism and Lulism
3 Bonapartism and Lulism
5 Neodevelopmentalism, Social Classes, and Foreign Policy in the pt Governments
1 The Bloc in Power and the Neodevelopmentalist Political Front
2 Foreign Policy and the Neodevelopmentalist Front
3 Conclusion
6 Neodevelopmentalism and the Recovery of the Brazilian Union Movement
1 Neodevelopmentalism and the Union Movement
2 The Union Movement’s Political Moderation
3 The Growth of the Strike Struggle
4 Final Considerations
part 2
The Nature and Dynamics of the Crisis that Led to the Impeachment
7 The Political Crisis of Neodevelopmentalism and the Instability of Democracy
1 The Political Crisis
2 The Neoliberal Bourgeois Offensive
3 The Participation of the Upper Middle Class
4 The Presence of the Working Classes
5 The Instability of Democracy
6 The Government’s Reaction and the Popular Movement
8 State, State Institutions, and Political Power in Brazil
1 The Bloc in Power and Class Alliances
2 The Political Regime and the Contradictions within the State Bureaucracy
3 bndes, Petrobras, and the Big Internal Bourgeoisie
4 Judicial Institutions, the Associated Bourgeoisie, and the Upper Middle Class
5 Final Considerations
9 Operation Car Wash, the Middle Class, and State Bureaucracy
1 The State’s Social Function, Social Classes, and Bureaucracy
2 Operation Car Wash and the Middle Class
3 The Middle Class and Corruption
10 The Crisis of Neodevelopmentalism and the Dilma Rousseff Government
1 A Couple of Things to Learn from the Crisis
2 The Bloc in Power and Class Alliances
3 The Political Crisis
11 Why was the Resistance to the 2016 Coup D’état so Weak?
1 The Internal Bourgeoisie was Divided in the Face of the Coup
2 The Marginal Mass of Workers Remained Passive
3 The Unionized Workers were Neutralized
4 After the Coup
Afterword Bolsonaro and the Rise of Neofascism
1 When Can We Speak of Fascism?
2 Bolsonarism is One of the Species of the Fascism Genre
3 The Bolsonaro Government and the Originating Political Crisis
4 Fascism and Bourgeoisie: Unity, Conflicts, and Conciliation
5 Final Considerations
Bibliography
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