/297/ Bungazão 2022 (Clean & Godly) ft. Benjamin Fogel
Added 2022-10-20 21:30:43 +0000 UTCOn corruption & anti-corruption.
When Bolsonaro won in 2018, he rode a wave of anti-corruption sentiment. Now he's doled out billions in pork via a secret budget, but this doesn't seem to bother his supporters. What happened?
Benjamin Fogel, who studies the history of corruption in Brazil, comes on to discuss how a moralistic account of corruption has fortified the far right. How has corruption been used as a political weapon in the past, and how has it shifted from right to left and back again?
How are scandals made rather than born? And what would an anti-corruption politics that is emancipatory look like – rather than the predominant technocratic or moralistic form today?
Readings:
- Against Anti-Corruption, Benjamin Fogel, Jacobin
- From Anti-Politics to Authoritarian Restoration in Brazil, Alex Hochuli, Jacobin
Comments
https://twitter.com/Alex__1789/status/1579956935688093697
Aufhebunga Bunga
2022-10-21 20:09:31 +0000 UTCHoly war for economic development? DID SOMEONE SAY GREAT CRUSADE?
Eli S
2022-10-21 17:02:06 +0000 UTC
