A new historical period
By VALERIO ARCARY: The US under Trump has a new strategy to preserve its hegemony in the international system of states. It is a brutal long-term counter-offensive
05/03/2025
By VALERIO ARCARY: The US under Trump has a new strategy to preserve its hegemony in the international system of states. It is a brutal long-term counter-offensive
By VALERIO ARCARY: The messenger must study the audience he is addressing and assess the correlation of forces. This is why many speakers fear speaking first, and rightly so.
ByVALERIO ARCARY: For Marxist currents that excluded the hypothesis of a gradualist transition, which had a more politically evolutionary than economic focus, the theoretical problem remained posed
By VALERIO ARCARY: Author's introduction to the newly released book
By VALERIO ARCARY: At both extremes are assessments that either the left has “died” or that it remains “intact”, but both, paradoxically, underestimate, for different reasons, the Bolsonaro threat
By VALERIO ARCARY: The election in São Paulo is the “mother” of all battles. Even if it loses in almost all capitals outside the Northeast, if the left wins in São Paulo it balances the outcome of the electoral balance.
By VALERIO ARCARY: The neo-fascist current has internal heterogeneities, different programmatic emphases, country by country, but has a common ideological core
By VALERIO ARCARY: What prevailed in Brazil, over many generations, were transitions from above, or concertations between bourgeois fractions
By VALERIO ARCARY: The US has no political or moral authority to denounce the Venezuelan regime as a dictatorship
By VALERIO ARCARY: The acephaly of the Democratic Party and the dominance of the extreme right in the Republican Party express a new moment in the crisis of North American imperialism
By VALERIO ARCARY: The far right ruthlessly exploits all the fears and anxieties that fragment society
By VALERIO ARCARY: When we consider proportional weights, there is more loyalty to Lulism among the poor, and greater consolidation of reactionaryism among the poor, a historical inversion
By VALERIO ARCARY: Lulism, or political loyalty to the experience of governments led by the PT, made it possible to win support among the very poor. But the left, although it maintains positions, has lost hegemony over its original mass social base.
By VALERIO ARCARY: The party was beautiful, man. But the red carnations of April have withered
By VALERIO ARCARY: Military Bonapartism in Brazil tried to legitimize itself as a regime that defended the nation against the danger of communism. At the height of violence, military Bonapartism degenerated into a semi-fascist regime
By VALERIO ARCARY: The worst mistake the left can make is to devalue the impact of the neofascists' counteroffensive. If they are not interrupted, they will advance
By VALERIO ARCARY: Sunday's mobilization shows that the social relationship of forces has not reversed. The country remains fragmented, and the extreme right maintains more weight in the politically active part of society
By VALERIO ARCARY: Without the black majority, which is the demographic, social, political and cultural majority of the people, a victory against capitalism will never be possible
By VALERIO ARCARY: The US under Trump has a new strategy to preserve its hegemony in the international system of states. It is a brutal long-term counter-offensive
By VALERIO ARCARY: The messenger must study the audience he is addressing and assess the correlation of forces. This is why many speakers fear speaking first, and rightly so.
ByVALERIO ARCARY: For Marxist currents that excluded the hypothesis of a gradualist transition, which had a more politically evolutionary than economic focus, the theoretical problem remained posed
By VALERIO ARCARY: Author's introduction to the newly released book
By VALERIO ARCARY: At both extremes are assessments that either the left has “died” or that it remains “intact”, but both, paradoxically, underestimate, for different reasons, the Bolsonaro threat
By VALERIO ARCARY: The election in São Paulo is the “mother” of all battles. Even if it loses in almost all capitals outside the Northeast, if the left wins in São Paulo it balances the outcome of the electoral balance.
By VALERIO ARCARY: The neo-fascist current has internal heterogeneities, different programmatic emphases, country by country, but has a common ideological core
By VALERIO ARCARY: What prevailed in Brazil, over many generations, were transitions from above, or concertations between bourgeois fractions
By VALERIO ARCARY: The US has no political or moral authority to denounce the Venezuelan regime as a dictatorship
By VALERIO ARCARY: The acephaly of the Democratic Party and the dominance of the extreme right in the Republican Party express a new moment in the crisis of North American imperialism
By VALERIO ARCARY: The far right ruthlessly exploits all the fears and anxieties that fragment society
By VALERIO ARCARY: When we consider proportional weights, there is more loyalty to Lulism among the poor, and greater consolidation of reactionaryism among the poor, a historical inversion
By VALERIO ARCARY: Lulism, or political loyalty to the experience of governments led by the PT, made it possible to win support among the very poor. But the left, although it maintains positions, has lost hegemony over its original mass social base.
By VALERIO ARCARY: The party was beautiful, man. But the red carnations of April have withered
By VALERIO ARCARY: Military Bonapartism in Brazil tried to legitimize itself as a regime that defended the nation against the danger of communism. At the height of violence, military Bonapartism degenerated into a semi-fascist regime
By VALERIO ARCARY: The worst mistake the left can make is to devalue the impact of the neofascists' counteroffensive. If they are not interrupted, they will advance
By VALERIO ARCARY: Sunday's mobilization shows that the social relationship of forces has not reversed. The country remains fragmented, and the extreme right maintains more weight in the politically active part of society
By VALERIO ARCARY: Without the black majority, which is the demographic, social, political and cultural majority of the people, a victory against capitalism will never be possible
