Thread by @nelsonhbarbosa

Texto longo, sobre o novo livro de Piketty, mas informativo sobre a agenda política da esquerda, centro esquerda etc. Algumas passagens me lembraram nossas "novas lideranças de esquerda", da chamada bancada "nem-nem", repasso a seguir ... bradford-delong.com/2019/12/what-i…

"In Piketty's new book, there are political organizations that understands how to make social democracy work for pretty much everybody: (...)"

"(...) to provide enough space for markets, enough in the way of incentives, and enough in the way of public support for economic growth to produce rapidly increasing prosperity, but also enough in the way of redistribution to sharply moderate inequality."

"But then, starting around 1980 in Piketty's telling, these political organizations lose their way. What had been the center-right becomes a "merchant right", devoted to advancing the interests of plutocrats by (...)"

Agora um resumo da estratégia Brexit-Trump-Bolsonaro:

"(...) by seeking a mass base by the neofascist strategy of triggering the base's resentment of those to whom relatively equal social democracy was giving "more than they deserve"."

Na sequência o diagnóstico sobre a "nova esquerda" (chamada de "3a via" nos anos 1990, hoje são os nem-nem ou esquerda Insper no Brasil:

"What had been the center-left becomes a "Brahmin left", focusing on policies that please and advance not the working class (...)".

"(...) but rather those who have taken advantage of social insurance and social-democratic institutions by becoming upwardly mobile via a high level of education."

"One political party advances the interest of those rich via inheritance and managerial entrepreneurship. The other advances the interest of those rich via education and professional status."

"And the broader public interest in a broadly middle-class society—and, indeed, in preventing the closing-down of the roads for upward mobility—is left by the wayside."

Análise também vale no Brasil, com pequenas adaptações.

FIM