Reflexões sobre as lutas das classes médias no Brasil à luz da análise de classes e das utopias reais de Erik Olin Wright

This article was prepared for the inter-national congress “Transforming Capitalism with Real Utopias: Around the Legacy of Erik Olin Wright” promoted by Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in January 2020. Its main objective is a reflection of the union struggles in Brazil, involving two segments of the intermediate working classes: public servants and bank workers, in the light of Wright’s analysis of classes and real utopias. In both cases, in addition to the understanding of more general working conditions, the union movements were approached, with emphasis on strikes and their social and political consequences. The article is divided into three parts: in the first one it discusses the union movements of public servants; in the second one it analyses the trade union struggle of bank workers; in the last one it elaborates an analysis of the middle classes in Brazil in the light of Wright’s concepts.