Fascism and Bolsonarism

theoretical and discursive approaches between the two practices

Abstract

Even before the victory of candidate Jair Bolsonaro was consummated, Brazil had as a political discussion the question of the return of barbarism, that is, of fascism. The term was part of political discussions of the most diverse communication vehicles with the then pre-candidate Bolsonaro. Comparisons were inevitable and the reserve captain had a political speech close to that of actors like Donald Trump (United States), Viktor Orbán (Hungary) and Erdogan (Turkey). Thus, the present work aims to analyze the statements produced about fascism and Bolsonarism. In this the work, we questioned the approximations and distances between both terms. The theoretical-methodological perspective is based on Foucault's discursive studies. In other words, it is an archeology, that is, an investigation of the historical formations of the present or of how the statements relate to each other (FOUCAULT, 2012; 2014). That said, our investigation of fascism is based on its founding text (MUSSOLINI, 2019), analyzes of social psychology on the subject (ADORNO, 2015; REICH, 2001) and recent criticisms of fascism in modern times (ECO, 2019) so that, next, we can arrive at the utterances of the present time about the approximations between the terms fascism and bolsonarism.