INTBUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Illiberal Democracy, Brazilian Military Government, Totalitarianism
30 Jul 2020
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Hannah arendt, argues that the rigors of extreme levels of individualism in capitalist societies attract people to totalitarianism as a form of government. Latin america has been home to many of the world"s military dictatorships. since world war. Argentina: military dictatorships governed argentina on four different occasions in the. Brazil: the brazilian military dictatorship is classified as a professionalized military regime, as the military was well trained, highly experienced, and institutionally strong. brazil was long-lasting, holding onto power for almost twenty years. Skidmore, smith and green reader: strategy for economic development: liberalism, industrialism, socialism and neoliberalism. democracies: One-party rule, often associated with the predominance of multi-class populist" alliances between local entrepreneurs and organized labor. Political and economic exclusion of the working class control of labor movements reduction or near-elimination of political activity. Problems were defined as technical instead of political. Powerful government was an essential prerequisite for the implementation of fundamental policy change.
