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Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil.The relative political stability that characterized domestic politics in the 2000s ended with the sudden emergence of a series of massive protests in 2013, followed by the controversial impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. In this new, more conservative period in Brazilian politics, a series of institutional reforms deepened the distance between citizens and representatives. Brazil's current political crisis cannot be understood without reference to the continual growth of right-wing and ultra-right discourse, on the one hand, and to the neoliberal ideology that pervades the minds of large parts of the Brazilian elite, on the other. Twenty experts on Brazil across different fields discuss the ongoing political turmoil in the light of distinct problems: geopolitics, gender, religion, media, indigenous populations, right-wing strategies, and new forms of coup, among others. Updated analyses enriched with historical perspective help to illuminate the intricate issues that will determine the country's fate in years to come. Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression will interest students and scholars of Brazilian Politics and History, Latin America, and the broader field of democracy studies.

This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the'systematic presentation'of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous'Capital'. The text introduces the reader to a key problem´of Marx's largely implicit epistemology, by exploring the systematic character of his exposition and the difference of this kind of'systematicity'from Hegelian philosophical system construction. The volume contributes to establishing a new understanding of the critique of political economy, as it has been articulated in various debates since the 1960s - especially in France, Germany, and Italy - and as it had already been initiated by Marx and some of his followers, with Rosa Luxemburg in a key role. All the chapters are transdisciplinary in nature, and explore the modern day relevance of Marx's and Luxemburg's theoretical analysis of the dominance of the capitalist mode of production.

L'Europe est devenue un espace aux frontières incertaines dans lequel font irruption les problèmes les plus divers : politiques d'immigration, d'hygiène, de santé et de sécurité... Ces domaines ressortent de plus en plus de la compétence de l'Union, réduisant la marge de manoeuvre des pays membres, et devenant ainsi l'objet d'une nouvelle citoyenneté, encore à construire, floue et discriminatoire. La vie en commun a besoin de se nourrir d'idées qui ne s'épuisent pas dans la pratique quotidienne, elle a besoin de voix qui, au-delà de l'urgence des décisions, prennent de la distance.