The social bases of PT governments

Abstract

Armando Boito Jr.'s new book brings together eleven political analysis articles and an appendix in which the author responds to criticisms that have been directed at his theses. Written and published between 2007 and 2017, they were reproduced without any changes in relation to the original version. This fact, rare in collections of texts aimed at understanding the historical situation, attests, in itself, to the quality and relevance of Reform and political crisis in Brazil. The relevance of these texts, written in the heat of the moment, is largely due to the rigorous management of a consistent theoretical framework, precisely articulated with empirical data. The method adopted in the book, in the best tradition of Marxism, avoids detaching politics from the economy and social life. Nor does it ignore the antagonisms arising from the cleavage of society into classes.