The exhaustion of the political-partisan organization of the working class in Brazil
Name: OTHONIEL CIBIEN DOS SANTOS
Publication date: 30/08/2017
Summary: This dissertation aims to reflect on the Brazilian political crisis that took place in the mass demonstrations of June 2013, known as the June days. We start from the idea that the manifestations of 2013 represent a political and theoretical break with the forms, tactics and strategies that the social movements that emerged from the ground in the 1970s, namely: community movements, the Ecclesial Base Community (CEB), the New syndicalism, among others, who fought against the military regime and formed a political party of the masses, the workers' party (PT), which represented the hope of transforming Brazilian society towards socialism. After awaking from a night of twenty-one years,
Brazil may be considered, belatedly, a capitalist nation. The reality that
prevailed at that moment made Gramsci his natural interpreter. A Western-type society, with a state that enlarges, with political redemocratization, an active working class and a modern party, able to synthesize this amalgam of interests and elevate them to a higher level, directing intellectual and morally civil society But on the stage of the world, the scenes we watched challenged this perspective. When the PT tries its victory in 1989, it is socialism that collapses, leaving a void in historical dissent, quickly occupied by the unique discourse of
neoliberalism. When the country can constitutionally propose a social state, the time has come to reform it into financial capital. To reach power the PT had to renounce its social base and cling to a power project. Once in power, the PT was a great manager of barbarism, focused on the miserable and sustained the financial aristocracy. Taking advantage of Chinese growth, he ruled on the pillars: Commodities, Credit and Consumption (CCC), fragile bases that, with the effects of the crisis of 2008, caused the PT sandcastle to collapse, whose
implosion begins in 2013 and seems to have ended In 2015. More than a
political crisis, it is an economic and theoretical crisis of great importance for the understanding and search of new ways for social transformation.
