
Democracy captivates
By LUIZ MARQUES: The moral and cultural reform of the country depends on the ideological struggle for the emancipation of consciences subjugated and underestimated by conservative thought, in captive democracy
By LUIZ MARQUES: The moral and cultural reform of the country depends on the ideological struggle for the emancipation of consciences subjugated and underestimated by conservative thought, in captive democracy
By LUIZ MARQUES: Low rates of unionization and anti-capitalist militancy are signs of the decline of ideologies and politics: they symptomatize the collapse of democracy and the dawn of regimes of exception, fertile ground for the sowing of horror
By LUIZ MARQUES: Neo-urbanism tramples on master plans. He who can, commands; he who compromises or becomes corrupt, obeys
By LUIZ MARQUES: Approaching power with the construct of loyalty, in addition to not incorporating the class dimension of affections, reinforces the personalist conception of politics
By LUIZ MARQUES: The apostles of social hierarchies and political apathy stamp what is in their colonized heads as irrational
By LUIZ MARQUES: Progressives must translate the Jacobin mantra to challenge the hearts and minds of the population as a whole today
By LUIZ MARQUES: Neoliberals believe that the reign of freedom coincides with the free market for the goals of accumulation
By LUIZ MARQUES: Contested by the corporate media, the elections in Venezuela have a historical basis that concerns geopolitics and ideology: the largest oil reserves in the world are concentrated there and an innovative form of government is unfolding
By LUIZ MARQUES: There is life beyond “presidentialism” and “parliamentarism”: “citizen participation” to manage public revenues with ethics in politics
By LUIZ MARQUES: Americanism is responsible for reducing individualism to the principle of property and consumption habits in the illuminated windows of shopping centers
By LUIZ MARQUES: Denialism constitutes a “crime of responsibility” awaiting clarification
By LUIZ MARQUES: Bolsonaro is a crook for hire to dismantle democracy and state regulatory bodies; submissive to the accumulative interests of the plutocracy
By LUIZ MARQUES: It is not the first time and will not be the last that the wheel of history has moved, led by the fist raised by women against ultra-conservatism
By LUIZ MARQUES: In important municipalities, the 2024 elections will function as a kind of plebiscite on the neoliberal city model
By LUIZ MARQUES: In the climate crisis with the flood catastrophe, neoliberals disguise themselves as socialists, and the demagoguery of the self-regulated market is exchanged for statism of convenience
By LUIZ MARQUES: The citizen struggle is not fought in an ideal arena, but under the weight of decades of monetarism on the subjectivation and worldview of the people
By LUIZ MARQUES: The understanding that plural resilience is capable of confronting the hegemonic model in society, based on the ultraliberalism of the war of all against all, is per se a factor in the politicization of the masses
By LUIZ MARQUES: Affects of solidarity and empathy with the pain of individuals and communities are numbed by the laws of the State
By LUIZ MARQUES: Zionism, by associating religion with expanding warmongering nationalism, embodies a threat to peace in the region, to international relations and to humanity. The far right applauds genocide
By LUIZ MARQUES: The moral and cultural reform of the country depends on the ideological struggle for the emancipation of consciences subjugated and underestimated by conservative thought, in captive democracy
By LUIZ MARQUES: Low rates of unionization and anti-capitalist militancy are signs of the decline of ideologies and politics: they symptomatize the collapse of democracy and the dawn of regimes of exception, fertile ground for the sowing of horror
By LUIZ MARQUES: Neo-urbanism tramples on master plans. He who can, commands; he who compromises or becomes corrupt, obeys
By LUIZ MARQUES: Approaching power with the construct of loyalty, in addition to not incorporating the class dimension of affections, reinforces the personalist conception of politics
By LUIZ MARQUES: The apostles of social hierarchies and political apathy stamp what is in their colonized heads as irrational
By LUIZ MARQUES: Progressives must translate the Jacobin mantra to challenge the hearts and minds of the population as a whole today
By LUIZ MARQUES: Neoliberals believe that the reign of freedom coincides with the free market for the goals of accumulation
By LUIZ MARQUES: Contested by the corporate media, the elections in Venezuela have a historical basis that concerns geopolitics and ideology: the largest oil reserves in the world are concentrated there and an innovative form of government is unfolding
By LUIZ MARQUES: There is life beyond “presidentialism” and “parliamentarism”: “citizen participation” to manage public revenues with ethics in politics
By LUIZ MARQUES: Americanism is responsible for reducing individualism to the principle of property and consumption habits in the illuminated windows of shopping centers
By LUIZ MARQUES: Denialism constitutes a “crime of responsibility” awaiting clarification
By LUIZ MARQUES: Bolsonaro is a crook for hire to dismantle democracy and state regulatory bodies; submissive to the accumulative interests of the plutocracy
By LUIZ MARQUES: It is not the first time and will not be the last that the wheel of history has moved, led by the fist raised by women against ultra-conservatism
By LUIZ MARQUES: In important municipalities, the 2024 elections will function as a kind of plebiscite on the neoliberal city model
By LUIZ MARQUES: In the climate crisis with the flood catastrophe, neoliberals disguise themselves as socialists, and the demagoguery of the self-regulated market is exchanged for statism of convenience
By LUIZ MARQUES: The citizen struggle is not fought in an ideal arena, but under the weight of decades of monetarism on the subjectivation and worldview of the people
By LUIZ MARQUES: The understanding that plural resilience is capable of confronting the hegemonic model in society, based on the ultraliberalism of the war of all against all, is per se a factor in the politicization of the masses
By LUIZ MARQUES: Affects of solidarity and empathy with the pain of individuals and communities are numbed by the laws of the State
By LUIZ MARQUES: Zionism, by associating religion with expanding warmongering nationalism, embodies a threat to peace in the region, to international relations and to humanity. The far right applauds genocide