Ciclos petistas de ajuste e suas contradições: condições sócios-políticas para o golpe de 2016

The article presents configurations of the “Brazil of the Present”, taking as reference the last decade of the twentieth century and the first two of the twenty-first century, having, as a historical-political landmark, processes of late and dependent insertion of Brazil into the financially- to circumscribe the so-called Brazilian structural adjustment. It seeks to outline the pathways of this adjustment process, over the last three decades, with an emphasis on the analysis of the PT’s adjustment cycles. In order to enter the Brazilian model of rentier-neo-extractive adjustment, based on the organic composition between financial capital and capital linked to neo-extractivism and agribusiness, it analyzes the PT’s perspective of class conciliation, to be embodied in the governments of Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff , through the consolidation of adjustment policies, in articulation with policies to combat poverty. Amid the inflections of the PT model, it focuses on the attempt to hybridize neoliberal policies with neodevelopmentism. It discusses the contemporary Brazilian crisis as the historical ground of the 2016 coup. The article expresses a critical effort to think contradictions in the PTs’ adjustment cycles, to generate socio-political conditions for the advancement of the extreme right, materialized in an ultraliberal, militarist, reactionary, in submission to the dictates of conservative segments of globalized capital.