Lulism in Crisis - by André Singer

The author of the concept of lulism presents a powerful interpretation of the functioning of the Brazilian political-party system, taking the Dilma years as the object of analysis. In Lulism in crisis, André Singer faces the challenge of reassembling the puzzle of the years in which Dilma Rousseff He was president of the republic and presents an original interpretation of the functioning of the Brazilian political-party system. With clear prose and rigorous argumentation, Singer explains why the removal of two structural pillars of the Lulista arrangement ― the relationship with financial capital and the PMDB, the “interior party” ― had such a high cost. Jaguars were poked with short sticks, without there having been mobilization of social bases that supported the continuity of Lulism, in its new version, of strong reformism. In a simultaneous process, Lava Jato ended up galvanizing support from significant fractions of society, becoming decisive in the propagation of the anti-Lulista waves that would lead to impeachment. Reconstructing in detail what he calls the developmentalist essay and the republican essay attempted by Dilma, the author presents the reasons why Senator Romero Jucá's formula of the “national agreement”, “with the Supreme Court, with everything” to overthrow the president ended up winning. .