The contradictions of Lulism: to what point Are we here?

Abstract

Reindustrialization with the opposition of industrialists, precarious wages with access to university, expansion of educational credit with the growth of private higher education, Walmartization of work with the internationalization of unions, agroecology with agribusiness, autonomy of the poorest with welfare passivity, cultural emancipation with entrepreneurship, hope of inclusion with lowering of expectations – these are some of the contradictions of Lulism discussed throughout the book reviewed here. The result of research carried out within the scope of the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic) of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (USP) between 2014 and 2016, its objective is to map some of the contradictions that took place during the period from 2008 to 2014, between the height of the international economic crisis during the second Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government and the end of Dilma Rousseff's first government. The book consists of eight articles.