Sailing Against the Wind: The Rise and Crisis of a Low-Conflict Progressivism
The governments of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’
Party—PT) in Brazil (2003– 2016) were part of a cycle of progressive
governments in Latin America whose differences are more specific to the
conditions of political struggle in each country—the conditions of arrival in
government, the structure of the political system—than fundamentally
programmatic. They can be characterized as a low-conflict progressivism in
that, although there was no promotion of a neoliberal agenda on the model of
European social liberalism, there was accommodation within the framework of the
established order that was ultimately fundamental to the success of the 2016
parliamentary-judicial coup.
