/565/ New Right Modernizers? ft. Orlando Lima [in Portuguese]
On Brazil and national reconstruction.
In our first ever episode in Portuguese, Alex speaks to Orlando Lima (editor of Valete, in-house magazine of new right-wing party, Missão) about the party and how Orlando came to be a "right-wing Zizekian".
Video with English subtitles and AI dubbing available at YouTube
Are left and right still meaningful identifiers?
Is Brazil actually "pre-modern"? What does modernization entail?
What is patrimonialism and how can it ever be good?
How can a War on Crime not lead to repression and gangsterism?
What about inequality?
How is Missão similar or different…
The skinny
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