This is what's happening in Brazil

In a Freudian sense, we are witnessing the return of the repressed. If you tell people for two decades that there is no alternative to the world in which they live, and if in the meantime you take away their income, their rights, their public services, and their last-remaining shreds of dignity, you can expect that psychological repression of revolutionary potential to come out in some other form sooner or later.

The magic is gone. The spell is broken. And what the people of the world are trying to make clear to those in power is that we know. We know that the system is rotten at the core. We know that its alleged successes do not hold up to scrutiny. The edifice is falling apart, and frankly speaking, our leaders do not even have a clue what to do about it.

an entire generation of young people, deprived of hope and opportunity, is rising up to contest the absurd notion that this disastrous state of affairs somehow constitutes the culmination of “mankind’s ideological evolution.” Is this really the best we can do?

The ideological narrative is the same everywhere: “we’re all in this together; we all need to tighten our belts,” but the implicit message is really: “do not dare to imagine an alternative.”

While certain Utopian longings may inspire us to soar to ever greater heights as a species, we always have to remember that no social order is given forever. As long as there is injustice, there will be struggle — and since there will always be injustice, there will always be struggle.

The rise of the indignant is nothing but the collective realization that liberal representative democracy, under the conditions of deep economic integration, is not really liberal or representative at all.

When the system forces ordinary people to become revolutionaries, you know you’re no longer at the End of History. You’re at the very edge of it.