Neoliberalism and punitive populism: the production of the subjectivity that demands punishment
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.16917Keywords:
punitive populism, neoliberalism, subjectivity, popular classes, financial capitalismAbstract
The article analyzes the relationship between punitive populism and neoliberalism, demonstrating how the latter produces the subjectivity that demands punishment. Through a theoretical-argumentative essay grounded in Neo-Marxism, it articulates critiques of political economy, critical criminology, and Latin American ethnographic studies. It demonstrates that financialization and accumulation by dispossession generate surplus populations managed by the penal system; that the neoliberal project and ideological state apparatuses manufacture an entrepreneurial self; and that popular classes, in their everyday practices, radicalize the punitive demand. Captured as electoral commodity, punitive populism serves financial capital by diverting social conflicts and weakening class solidarity.
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