The Brazilian Matrix: Between Fascism and Neo-Liberalism: Vladimir Safatle and Samir Gandesha in Conversation

Samir Gandesha

doi:10.21827/krisis.40.1.37054

Abstract

This is a conversation that took place at Dr. Vladimir Safatle’s São Paulo home on 16 February, 2019, during Dr. Samir Gandesha’s time as a Visiting Professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas -FFLCH-USP (Universidade de São Paulo). It addresses the South American roots of the authoritarian Neoliberalism that has now become a truly global phenomenon.

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This is a conversation that took place at Dr Vladimir Safatle’s São Paulo home on 16 February, 2019, during Dr Samir Gandesha’s time as a Visiting Professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas - FFLCH-USP (Universidade de São Paulo)
Cairo for the Brazilian media and conducted interviews with many Tunisians and Egyptians as history was unfolding. He was approached to become involved in party politics, this did not work out insofar as he refused to bend to the imperatives of the party machinery (PSOL)
Right populism cannot be understood as this kind of inclusive definition of the people based upon different socialeconomic demands against the bearers of a certain form of economic and social-political power but, rather, as an exclusionary conception of the people based on some ethnonational identity against an enemy that takes a personalized form

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This is a conversation that took place at Dr Vladimir Safatle’s São Paulo home on 16 February, 2019, during Dr Samir Gandesha’s time as a Visiting Professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas - FFLCH-USP (Universidade de São Paulo). Getting back to your question, we know, after 2001, fear became the most important political affect in our global societies––not just in Europe and the United States, and in the Global South, like Brazil and so on.

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