O PT e o lulismo: do “radicalismo difuso” ao “liberalismo de esquerda”

Abstract

This article contextualizes the electoral trajectory of the Workers Party (PT) and of Brazil´s president Lula da Silva. It demonstrates how the then candidate Lula kept a proposal of confronting liberal capitalism and how he was adjusting, throughout his trajectory, to the dominant discourse. It analyzes some social policies implemented during his first term, defending that they were integrated and accepted by the new movement of capital