In Brazil if they have a Italian surname, they’re probably descendants of the 1880s-1930s immigration wave that was incentivized specifically as a way to avoid giving work and land to the recently freed black population.
The ex-slaves were driven into the city periphery (eventually leading to the favela phenomenon), while Italian newcommers were given priority for land distribution alongside some of the (Portuguese-ish) white urban population.
she wants to hurt them because the threat against fascism is real enough to warrant it.
Nah, indigenous activism is incredibly weak and, at best, defensive in Brazil. A large portion of it has been co-opted by the “progressive” Lula’s party. This is like saying trans people are an overwhelming threat to capital in the UK.
What fascists fear, above all else, are successful marxist-leninists.
Well, they’re in luck. There are barely any in Brazil. And definitely very few in the indigenous movements. MLs typically grow in urban centers.
Those most subjugated are sometimes the most susceptible to being open to the science of socialism
The lumpenproletariat or the hyperexploited sections of the proletariat are never the main component of any professionalised vanguard party, which is key to ML theory.
This all smacks of bad analysis. The reborn agitation against indigenous peoples is to manufacture consent for private exploration of their few remaining territories, with all the violence that usually entails. Indigenous peoples “need” to be massacred so that the mining and oil exploration can develop, and so they “need” to be dehumanised and have their traditional ways of living distorted as preparation.
It’s not a sign we’re doing well, or that we’re even politically relevant to this calculus at all.
Incredibly likely. Not of the “original colonisers”, as in the Portuguese, but rather of the new settlers from after slavery was abolished. Ironically the Portuguese settler descendants themselves got the short end of the stick among the whites. Even Bolsonaro himself is of Italian settler descent.