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“It matters little that most crises we experience today are in effect a product of neoliberalism itself: We are no longer living in a crisis of management but in an era of management by means of crises.”
“For this is the great irony and paradox of far-right politics: what it proposes is a very conformist kind of revolt.”
“__________________________________ Excerpted from Anatomy of Disintegration: What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right by Rodrigo Nunes and published by Haymarket Books.”
“Literary Hub » What Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-Right Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Book Marks CrimeReads Log In What Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-Right Rodrigo Nunes on Neoliberalism, Conformism, and Revolution Via Haymarket Books Rodrigo Nunes October 7, 2026 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.”
“By exempting themselves, as far as possible, from the duty to intervene to protect life, Trump, Bolsonaro, Johnson, and others tested the extent to which this logic has already become naturalized; the result is grim.”
“In other words, it is only because many people sense that there is something profoundly wrong about the existing economic and political system that the far right’s message can take hold.”
“In the absence of any sustained challenge to their power, elites seem to trust their capacity to continually outmaneuver the majority of the population regardless of whether or not they are actually trusted.”
“Since inequality made quarantining an unattainable luxury for them, posing the situation as a choice between potentially dying from COVID-19 and potentially starving to death showed that Bolsonaro understood their reality more profoundly than did the hypocrites telling them to stay at home when they had no option but to go out to work.”
“That this was politically possible, that it did not destroy the careers of such leaders, is a sign of how much, since the end of the golden age of real or promised welfare protection of the postwar period, populations have become accustomed to declining expectations.”
“If sacrifice was once presented as a way to make life better, it now appears increasingly as an end in itself: the sheer imperative to adapt to a horizon of lowering expectations.”
“This tendency reached its culmination with the pandemic, when official discourse in places like Brazil and the United States literally began to say that people had to choose between the economy and life.”
“As Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick pungently put it in 2020, “There are more important things than living and that’s saving this country”—that is, the economy.”
“But what he did not notice at the time is that there is an asymmetry between “greatest benefit” and “least cost”: while the former is vague and has no defined threshold, the latter does––it is zero.”