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| The New Brazil |
Reviewed by Levi Gahman, ROAR Magazine
Raúl Zibechi, The New
Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy (translated by Ramor Ryan),
Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2014.
Brazil is bleeding, and
in his book, The New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy, author
Raúl Zibechi demonstrates how neoliberalism is responsible for inflicting the
wounds. The latest offering from the Uruguayan journalist, militant and
political theorist is a perceptive and incisive dressing-down of the capitalist
world system, the multinational corporate cartels that drive it, and the
ongoing colonial domination that is currently plaguing the masses of Brazil.
The book forcefully exhibits how the insatiable drive for capital accumulation
continues to dispossess, exploit, and repress the disempowered and voiceless.
Zibechi also demonstrates how the historical trajectories of imperialism
continue to operate within Brazil during contemporary times, thereby preserving
privilege and power for a select minority elite at the expense of both the
environment and the majority of Brazilian society.
