Twenty-first-century Brazil’s political evolution is a window on the dynamics of contemporary political transitions. The inability of Brazil’s Workers’ Party to sustain its social democratic project and the subsequent rise of the reactionary regime of Jair Bolsonaro are, in turn, part of a global pattern of political change. Karl Polanyi’s vision of the ‘double movement,’ in which the dominance of the market vies with the countervailing movement for social protection, offers an analytical springboard for reflecting on these political transitions. Trying to understand the movement for social protection leads to examining ebbs and flows in the momentum of mobilization. Trying to understand how market dominance leads to reaction brings us back to Polanyi’s advocacy of ‘crass materialism’ as a lens for looking at reaction, and from there to consideration of how the structural power of capital undercuts efforts at social protection and opens the door to reaction.

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波兰尼遇见博尔索纳罗：二十一世纪巴西的反动政治和双重运动

二十一世纪巴西的政治演变是了解当代政治转型动态的窗口。反过来，巴西工人党无法维持其社会民主计划以及 Jair Bolsonaro 反动政权的崛起，反过来又是全球政治变革格局的一部分。卡尔·波兰尼 (Karl Polanyi) 的“双重运动”愿景，其中市场的主导地位与社会保护的反补贴运动竞争，为反思这些政治转型提供了分析跳板。试图了解社会保护运动会导致检查动员势头的潮起潮落。试图了解市场主导地位如何导致反应，让我们回到波兰尼倡导的“粗暴唯物主义”作为观察反应的镜头，