2013 e a ofensiva neoliberal contra o Brasil

Abstract

This thesis is a critical analysis of the demonstrations that took place in Brazil in June 2013. Our problem arose from the perception of the largely contradictory nature of those demonstrations, which were still presented and defended from a single perspective, that of progressive rebellion, but which had metamorphosed into the baptismal font of the Brazilian right. Using as a key to our interpretation historical-dialectical materialism, its category of totality, its historicism and humanism, and its dialectical conception of contradiction, we sought to go beyond the appearance of that historical phenomenon, situating it amidst the intensification of geopolitical disputes that have been taking place on the planet since the beginning of the 21st century, a situation that was aggravated by the 2008 crisis. We used primary and secondary sources, as well as interviews and extensive bibliography to develop our analysis. We interpret social reality as a historical process that develops through class struggle, as well as struggle between nations, with a central role for the category of labor and the contradictions between capital and labor. The Leninist category of imperialism has enabled us to understand the materiality of nations and the contradictory dialectic of uneven and combined development between the Global North and South, which is now reflected in the gradual shift of the center of the world economy toward Asia and the consequent worsening of the capitalist crisis. The imperialist bloc’s attempt to reverse this development occurs through an offensive policy of imposing neoliberal recipes that make it possible to increase the transfer of wealth from the South to the Global North. To this end, they use economic wars involving sanctions of all kinds, legal wars, monetary pressures, as well as a policy of changing governments that are inconvenient to them, using proxy wars and color and tweeted revolutions. We have noted that the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Philanthropic Foundations and Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are among the tools used in these actions. Our thesis is that the political turmoil that spread across several countries in North Africa and Western Asia from 2010 onwards reverberated in Brazil through the same mechanisms and tools of “regime change”, producing, here, the “tweeted revolution” of June 2013 and resulting in the neoliberal offensive that has worsened the situation in our country since then.