"What the bourgeois does complaining... The fascist does smiling”: neo-fascism, international capital, associated bourgeoisie and the Brazilian Unified Health System

ABSTRACT

This study carries out a critical review by dialectically rehearsing the relationship between international capital, neo-fascism and its repercussions in Brazil, in general, and in public health, in particular. In this sense, this study is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the role of the capital crisis as a trigger for fascism in a Marxist tradition. The second section addresses how neo-fascism emerges as a response to capitalist dynamics in the neoliberal phase of capitalism. And the third section presents some relations between the associated bourgeoisie and its interests in defunding the Unified Health System and taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to take over the government genocidal project. © 2022 Edipucrs. All rights reserved.