What Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-Right

If there is one thing that the last decade ought to have taught us, it is that strong objective factors do not automatically translate into powerful movements, let alone into the spontaneous discovery of the correct line by the masses. Even if we may still see major social explosions in the coming years, there is no reason to believe that they will take forms that will be easily recognizable to the left or that they will be immune to instrumentalization from the right. This is usually the point