Roberto Schwarz : Neo-Backwardness In Bolsonaro’s Brazil
▻https://newleftreview.org/issues/II123/articles/roberto-schwarz-neo-backwardness-in-bolsonaro-s-brazil
Brazil’s foremost cultural theorist considers parallels between the rise of Bolsonaro and the 1964 military coup. Is capital once again advancing its modernization programme with the support of the country’s most backward-looking elements? Paradoxes of politics and culture, from Machado to the present, via tropicalismo and Glauber Rocha.