Ideology

Protest against Temer at Museu da República in Brasília - Lula Marques/Agência PT

How the Neoliberal Elite Conspired to Destroy Brazil’s Workers Party. And How It Failed

The Brazilian Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) won the country’s presidential elections four ...

Brazilian congressman Jair Messias Bolsonaro - Antonio Cruz/ABr

Known as the Myth, Jair Bolsonaro Is Brazil’s Version of Donald Trump

On April 4, Christian Social Party congressman Jair Messias Bolsonaro gave a racially charged ...

Elections: A Far-Right Former Captain Surges as Brazil’s Donald Trump

Since the election victory of Donald Trump, many have tirelessly talked about populism. It ...

A Few Examples of How Societal Fascism Is Alive and Well in Brazil

In 1940 Walter Benjamin wrote his Theses on the Concept of History prompted by ...

How the New Regime in Brazil Uses Ideology in Effort to Legitimate the Coup

There is some similarity between the atomic age and the action of ideology. The ...

Chomsky, Oliver Stone, and 20 Other Celebrities Decry Coup Against Brazil’s President

Twenty-two international intellectuals, writers, actors, and activists sent a letter to the Brazilian government ...

Believe It or Not, Brazil’s Second in Line for Presidency Is a Communist

Master Gilberto Freire  was absolutely right when he remarked that Brazil was the country ...

Cardoso back in Stanford

Former visiting professor at Stanford University, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was back at that Northern ...

Barăo de Itararé’s poison pen

Brazil is celebrating the centenary of birth of Aparício Torelly who is better known ...