The Brazilian federal public university: Future-se and ‘cultural war’ as expressions of bourgeois autocracy

Abstract

Inserted in the field of educational policies, the article examines Bolsonaro government’s measures for federal universities, especially Future-se. It advocates that the objective of said program is to refunctionalize the university in accordance to the requirements of the bourgeois autocracy and, something specific to the Brazilian situation, the ‘cultural war’. The paper is concluded by indicating the facts and their relations that corroborate that this agenda continues to strategically guide governmental actions aligned with the expectations of dominant bourgeois fractions.