PT: From Misguided Reformism to Political Impotence

Authors

  • Ronaldo Gaspar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v20i36.31856

Keywords:

Workers’ Party, Brazil, colonial path, reformism, conservatism.

Abstract

Departing from the observation that the current resurgence of conservatism is not an accident, but rather is intrinsically related to the structural limits that face the advance of democracy in a capitalist system of colonial origins, this article presents evidence for understanding how the Workers’ Party (PT) reiterated the longstanding difficulty of the Brazilian left to understand those limits and, consequently, to organize the working masses for autonomous political action, betting, in different ways, on conciliation with the “national bourgeoisie” as a way to solve the country’s most serious problems.

Author Biography

Ronaldo Gaspar

Doutor em Ciências Sociais pela PUC-SP. Professor de Ciência Política da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) e coordenador do Grupo de Estudos Marxistas (GEMARX). Londrina-PR, Brasil.

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Published

2016-06-30

How to Cite

Gaspar, R. (2016). PT: From Misguided Reformism to Political Impotence. Lutas Sociais, 20(36), 179–193. https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v20i36.31856

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 36 (2016): The Right Returns... End of a Cycle in Latin America?

Section

Dossier

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