Eduarda Campopiano (PL-SP), 23, was elected this Sunday as the state representative with the most votes in São Paulo, with 1,956,238 votes—a record for the São Paulo State Legislative Assembly. But her public record includes statements that sparked controversy even before the election.
In May of this year, during an interview on the RedCast podcast, Campopiano claimed that, had it not been for European Christianization, indigenous peoples would be “practicing cannibalism” in Brazil. “Praise God that they colonized us, praise God that they Christianized the indigenous women. Praise God that the far right arrived and told the Indians: ‘Guys, making sacrifices and eating your little brother’s arm isn’t right, burying children alive…’,” she declared.
Campopiano is a digital influencer and describes herself as “the greatest enemy of São Paulo’s feminists.” She was elected city councilor in Praia Grande in 2024 with just over 3,500 votes, and in 2026 she left that position to run for the State Legislature. Her political mentor is Lucas Pavanato (PL), who was elected to the Federal Chamber of Deputies in São Paulo with 3,038,438 votes—the second-highest vote total in the history of the Chamber of Deputies. Both are part of the same cohort of conservative influencers that the Liberal Party propelled into the legislature in these elections.
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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.
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.
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.
Who said otherwise? If Lula were able to out-organise communists do we blame the indigenous? What happened to the autodynamism of dialectical materialism? Furthermore, it is not just the indigenous who are hurt.
And?
ML theory is a living thing. It wasn’t too long ago the sickle was added to the hammer. Some of the most revolutionary in the US and Israel, for example, are borne from the lumpenproleteriat.
In the 21st century in large parts of the world the proleteriat is being pulled towards two poles - labour aristocracy and lumpenproleteriat. A communist who wants to de-emphasise the revolutionary potential of the latter will end up tailing the former.
Manufacturing consent is a failed idealist theory made popular by a sheepdog idealist hack (Chomsky. Parenti attempted to bring a materialist analysis earlier but it is one of his weaker works). Social licensing is a much better materialist theory of how propaganda works.
I never said it was. When fascists posture it is a call to action against them. As Kwame Ture says wherever there is oppression there is resistance even if that resistance appears silent. It is up to the scientific socialist to awaken the beast of revolution. So what are you going to do about it? Clearly the political theory on the ground is left wanting. Why should the indigenous join losers who will not value their political potential?
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We’ll ignore your strawman weasel word “overwhelming”. Trans folks are a threat to capital, they are a threat to the binary division of gendered labour and the bourgeoisie ideal of the nuclear family unit. They expose how gender is a social construct. They totally are a fucking threat to capital. An effective vangaurd could be in part be made up of this threat. Some of the most awesome living marxist-leninists are trans. For example go read this absolute banger of an essay by Nia Frome:
https://redsails.org/the-problem-of-recognition-in-transitional-states/