Reforms and inheritance of a corporatist Brazil

Since the first portugu & ecirc; s landed on Brazilian soil, h á more of 500 years, we have undertaken the construction project & ccedil; & atilde; the one in & ccedil; & atilde, the. N & HAND & deteriorate the running; heran & ccedil; that of our ancestors ib & eacute; rich had the burocr State á tico by structuring our development axis. In fun & ccedil; & atilde, the most immediate interests or resources available & iacute; RESPONSIBLE we choose different burocr structures & aacute; optical: of capitanias heredit & aacute; tions & aggravates; rep STILL personalistas Republics, Regency period of governments to democracies in states & ccedil; & atilde, the.

If for hist & oacute; ria these five s & eacute; n & atilde centuries, the pass a little spasm in & ccedil; & atilde, the, for everyday – in which we are is & ccedil; ed to act – this time was more than enough to solidify establishing & ccedil; & otilde; es and conception & ccedil; & otilde; s world which today s & atilde, the very expensive. Each of its shape, all of them were analyzed by v á holiday disciplines ci & ecirc; human TRENDS: anthropology (Roberto Damatta); economy (Caio Prado J & uacute; senior, Roberto Campos); hist & COLLISION ria (S & eacute; rgio Buarque Holland, Gilberto Freyre); Pol & iacute; tica (Joaquim Nabuco); right (Gilberto Amado, Afonso Arinos)…

All these mappings on our reality served – and still serve – so deep reflex & otilde; es were made on ways that the pa & iacute; s Brazil won today be what & eacute;. These reflex & otilde; es we take conscience & ecirc; INSTANCE pol & iacute; tica successes and ills that make our national soul. Also & eacute; m & eacute; that arise them the fundamentals of pragmatic inch & iacute; typical institutional: knowing the path we at & eacute; here & eacute; More f á cyl know how to pr & oacute; ximo step towards (uncertain) future.

The more experi & ecirc; INSTANCE hist & oacute; ria accumulated, more maturity Brazilian society can present. This n & atilde, occurs in the face of the amount of knowledge accumulated by & eacute; m in the face of the emergence of increasingly paradoxical or contradictory points & oacute; rivers. The whole society is about choices and these usually involve winners and losers, winners and losers, inclu RIVER two and exclu RIVER two. The deeper these choices are more prop & iacute; cio be & aacute; the ground for discussion & atilde, the about what we mean by the & ccedil; & atilde, the.

Parties pol & iacute; ticos come to power groups demands and generally find their SPACE; the di á logo in SPACE, parliamentarians. However, when we think the Brazilian case and turn to the hist & oacute; ria Fashion & ccedil; & atilde; the establishing our ccedil &; & otilde; es and conception & ccedil; & otilde; s world, just to see an excessively large state. This magnitude n & atilde, the just about his intense part & ccedil; & atilde, the economics, to remind us liberals cl á ssicos, however its presence MAKE-institutional in virtually every dimension & otilde; s private.

Be the friendly profile, is at a prevalecimento & eacute; tica lit & uacute; rgica, always fell to the State the responsibility to forge n & atilde; s & oacute; the uni & atilde; national, but also & eacute; m and greatly, What unions & atilde: the Social. E n & atilde, the less by the Brazilian government created the cart & oacute; rivers, unions & ldquo; State” and constitutes & ccedil; & atilde, the Citizen & atilde; (1988).

We managed to get through almost five s & eacute; glasses, keeping – with ups and downs – the pace of more complex & ccedil; & atilde; the social structure. However, the current grimace & ccedil; ning the Brazilian social fabric seems to indicate the need to formulate a new social pact. Surely he n & atilde, passes by a denying of our important and rich inheritance & ccedil, the, however it requires a deepening of di á logo.

Since redemocratiza & ccedil; & atilde, the (Figueiredo / Sarney) this di á coming soon increasing its expression arena & atilde; the, although piecemeal. With Fernando Henrique pa & iacute; s was called to establish their agenda and so did. However were the & uacute; FULL EXTENT election & ccedil; & otilde; s presidential (2002) that established the limits and priorities of this agenda. Even tending to exceed the Lula government, & Eacute; in the daily presenting her true din & acirc; mica.

Briefly – although simplistic – what we can see & eacute; a state that consumes more resources than disp & otilde; and, insisting on its ubiquitous profile; an increasingly skeptical society and a better future and, so even, The coin & iacute; mules and germandbls; ccedil and profound pieces, and ohungarumlaut; you; and an increasingly distant elite of their historic responsibilities & oacute; rich-social. Careless sum of this can result in something truly destabilizing.

Fortunately our overlap & otilde agenda; and is & aggravate; s our will and then transforms the invitation calls & ccedil; & atilde, the. Change or n & atilde, the pa & iacute; s & eacute; more than a debate between progressives and conservatives, & Eacute; a debate between Brazilian society and its historical & oacute; ria. If our creativity be & aacute; enough to perform this task, even n & atilde; we know, but we certainly apologize that in an idealized and nostalgic past anything in advance & aacute;.

Daily: the military and judges is reminiscent & ccedil that the reform Previd & ecirc; n & nce atilde; or & eacute; freshness of a president, & Eacute; Demand hist & oacute; ria. The construction & ccedil; & atilde; the one pa & iacute; s depends on much more than the defense by & ldquo; acquired rights & rdquo;, depends on the defense for a pa & iacute; s SUSTAINABLE á vel.

Moral of the hist & oacute; ria: A privatized State, corporatism generally & eacute; had by patriotism.

Father Antonio Vieira – Serm & atilde; the Fourth of Advent Dominga

Pol & iacute; tica

What III nº 25  –  July 2003