Interesting but strange article. I’m an American (lawyer) now living in Brazil through the Bolsonaro and now (current) Lula administrations- my wife is a Brazilian lawyer and neither of us has ever heard of Roberto Unger (not that that is definitive of anything, but I bet most readers never heard of him).
Based on the article, Unger sounds like a Lula socialist (Lula, you’ll recall, is famously a communist, former union boss who in the 90’s set up with Fidel Castro a loose confederation of commies in Latin America – he was also put in jail for profiting from his office as president, but was released by a single, close-friend Supreme Court Judge on a jurisdictional technicality- AFTER the statute of limitations had run).
So Unger seems to want to dismantle or lessen the political power of the elites in government and business and the very powerful Brazilian Unions, in favor of the “dispossessed” – bankrupt or poor but somehow between the working class and the elites?
In any event, the desire to “redistribute” political power is always suspect, especially in Brazil – the land of propinas and corruption – which somehow hangs together enough to rival France in GDP.
Interesting but strange article. I’m an American (lawyer) now living in Brazil through the Bolsonaro and now (current) Lula administrations- my wife is a Brazilian lawyer and neither of us has ever heard of Roberto Unger (not that that is definitive of anything, but I bet most readers never heard of him).
Based on the article, Unger sounds like a Lula socialist (Lula, you’ll recall, is famously a communist, former union boss who in the 90’s set up with Fidel Castro a loose confederation of commies in Latin America – he was also put in jail for profiting from his office as president, but was released by a single, close-friend Supreme Court Judge on a jurisdictional technicality- AFTER the statute of limitations had run).
So Unger seems to want to dismantle or lessen the political power of the elites in government and business and the very powerful Brazilian Unions, in favor of the “dispossessed” – bankrupt or poor but somehow between the working class and the elites?
In any event, the desire to “redistribute” political power is always suspect, especially in Brazil – the land of propinas and corruption – which somehow hangs together enough to rival France in GDP.