A operação Lava Jato e a reprodução simbólica de desigualdades no Brasil

Abstract

The majority Brazilian social thought defends, in an inconsistent way, that patrimonialism would be the fundamental element of the formation of the Brazilian State. According to this thesis, defended by authors like Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Raymundo Faoro and Roberto DaMatta, the formation of the Brazilian State was marked by the confusion between State and Family, so that the patrimonialist appropriation of the State, in which personal interest is privileged in public interest. In this way, Brazil would be a backward society due to Portuguese monarchist influence in our formation. In view of this, Operation Lava Jato is used as a mechanism to further disseminate the thesis of patrimonialism, allowing the neoliberal agenda to gain strength, legitimizing privatizations and the "real corruption" of tax evasion, with the dissemination of the discourse that -imposed it's robbery. By disseminating the thesis of patrimonialism, Operation Lava Jato contributes to masking that inequality is the true fundamental element of Brazilian social formation, as Jessé de Souza puts it. With this, Lava Jato is used as a mechanism for symbolic reproduction in Brazil, the 10th most unequal country in the world according to the UN Report.