The Neoliberal Shock and the Standard of Bourgeois Hegemony in the Lula-Worker’s Party Government

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present a meta-synthesis of the political-economy of the administrations of President Lula and his Workers Party. It is the partial result of a research project and is part of a broader discussion about economic development with a focus on relations of the Brazilian state in the past ten years. Various approaches to the issue have allowed understanding the contradictions between the factions of class of the block in power and the Lula government. The analysis of the social totality is a presumption of the investigation whose theoretical methodological base is a criticism of the economic policy through the use of bibliographic and documentary research, based on the neo-developmentalism of the Lula era (2003-2016). It focuses on the economic, political and social conditions of Brazil in this time period. The article concludes that the international crisis of capital since 2008 had drastic consequences for the Latin American economies and with the end of the cycle of commodities, caused regression in the social affluence of neo-developmentalism in the country.