Pandemic in Dependent Capitalism: Appointments about COVID-19 in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Nogueira, Kleiton Wagner Alves da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Santos, Nivalter Aires dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Textos & contextos (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/fass/article/view/39303
• topic: COVID-19; State; Dependency; Neoliberalism; Bolsonaro’s government; COVID-19; Estado; Dependência; Neoliberalismo; Governo Bolsonaro

The objective of this paper is to investigate the limits of coping with the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, in its first 180 days. The methodology used is bibliographic survey, to find gaps in the field of social sciences, and a discourse analysis, in a Marxist sense. The results indicate two types of problems: an organic, which is related to the condition of a country of dependent capitalism, which has a form of autocratic domination, which negatively influences public health; the other is the Bolsonaro’s government and its inertia in dealing with the health crisis. Also, the pandemic develops unevenly, reaching mostly the poorest and blacks / browns, showing the class character of the pandemic in Brazil. Finally, we criticize the limits of the approaches that defend the return of the Keynesian State as a solution to the crisis of neoliberalism that the coronavirus opens up.