The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century Conflict and Conciliation in Peripheral Capitalism

Luis Felipe Miguel is Full Professor in the Political Science Institute at the University of Brasília, Brazil, where he leads the Research Group on Democracy and Inequalities. He is also a researcher in the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He is the author of several books, including Democracia e Representação (2014), Feminismo e Política (co-authored with Flávia Biroli; Editora Boitempo, 2014), Consenso e Conflito na Democracia Contemporânea (2017), and Dominação e Resistência (forthcoming).

Vladimir Puzone is Research Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Brasília (Brazil), where he is conducting a research on the history of the Workers’ Party. He is the author of the book Capitalismo Perene: reflexões sobre a estabilização do capitalismo a partir de Lukács e da teoria crítica (Perennial capitalism: reflections on the stabilization of capitalism in Lukács and Critical Theory, 2016).