On 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:
/316/ From Emergency to Emergency: 2022 Review, ft. Ashley Frawley
/314/ Shallow & Wrongheaded Filmic Squabbles ft. Maren Thom & Alex Dale
/312/ Consolation-Prize Marxism & the Bunga-Bunga State ft. Dylan Riley
Excerpt: /311/ Reading Club: The Precariat
Excerpt: /310/ Do You Want to De-Grow?
/309/ Sack of Potatoes ft. Anton Jäger
Excerpt: /308/ A Balance-Sheet of the Left
Excerpt: /307/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Dec 2022)
Excerpt: /306/ Reading Club: AI Capitalism
/305/ Techno-Feudal Unreason
/303/ The Failure of the French Forever War ft. Yvan Guichaoua
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations (FULL)
Excerpt: /302/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Nov 2022)
Excerpt: /301/ Reading Club: Neo-Feudalism
/300/ Bunga at the End of the World
/299/ Micropower & Transcendence in Brazil (Bungazão 2022) ft. Miguel Lago
/298/ Working For Freedom ft. Alex Gourevitch
Excerpt: /296/ Last-Gasp Neoliberalism (Trussonomics)
Excerpt: /295/ Aufhebonus Bonus: October
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