Three stages of the “soft” coup in Brazil

towards a social rearticulation of capital

Abstract

This article reflects on three major stages that constitute the Brazilian institutional political coup
between the years 2016-2017. In the first stage we studied the process of consummation of the
coup in May 2016 and the economic foundation in which it rests: the violent social rearticulation
of capital directed by the financial fraction of the great capital. In the second stage we studied the
reasons that put to the brink of the collapse to the government of Michel Temer to fear as well as its
results. Finally, we highlight the new episode of the coup d’état defined by the process of disabling
the most popular candidate for the presidential contest of 2018.