#state intervention

honestly ignoring our struggles or even when we mention them... no matter how informed some folks are, it seems that we are still casually dismissed as defected machines that need to be fixed with forced state intervention. 

Everything under Bolsonaro should proceed under the unmitigated reign of a Hobbesian “free” market. Forget about any possibility of a moderating state intervention in the complex relations between Capital and Labor. This is the apex of a complex process unleashed years ago in Brazil via think tanks such as the Atlas Network, loads of money and, last but not least, an evangelical/neo-pentecostal tsunami. The pillars of the Brazilian carnage are powerful agro-business and mineral exploitation interests, toxic Brazilian mainstream media, evangelicals, a financial sector totally subservient to Wall Street, the weapons industry, the completely politicized judiciary, the police, intel services, and the armed forces.

What is the Church Teaching on State Invention in Society?

What is the Church Teaching on State Invention in Society?

The Road to 'Trumpism' - Freedom Philosophy

Jayalalithaa intervened in very cultural aspects, such as giving food away. It’s not just calories – food has a great cultural value. If a person gives you food, you are indebted to that person. That bond is not an economic bond, it’s a cultural bond ... People feel as if they are eating Amma’s food.

The police is that force that intervenes ‘wherever things are amiss,’ that is to say, wherever antagonism appears between forms-of-life – wherever there is a jump in political intensity. Using the arm of the police ostensibly to protect the ‘social fabric,’ while using another arm to destroy it, the State then offers itself as an existentially neutral mediator between the parties in question and imposes itself, even in its own coercive excesses, as the pacified landscape for confrontation. It is thus, according to the same old story, that the police produced public space as a space that it has taken control of; that is how the language of the State came to be applied to almost every social activity, how it became the language of the social par excellence.