Post-Marxism and Politics - The Case of the Brazilian Workers' Party (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783639090529)

Since the 1980s, the Brazilian Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) received attention due to its heterogeneous composition of social activists and innovative governing practices. By making a discourse analysis of the PT, Pessoa examines the trajectory of its political dis-course, as the party goes from opposition to holding municipal office. After establishing the party's political discourse based on a hegemonic political strategy and with an objective to radicalize democracy, Pessoa analyses how the PT confronts institutional limits in trying to materialise its original political discourse. The key question that Pessoa tries to answer is whether the party has been able to bring about transformative changes once it reached municipal office, or whether the PT has become just another political party within the Brazilian political regime.

Author: Carlos Pessoa
ISBN-10: 3639090527
ISBN-13: 9783639090529
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2008
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.14w x 0.56d