Bolsonarismo: uma historia do conceito

Abstract

Bolsonarismo can be interpreted as the Brazilian political expression of the rise of social movements, leaders and governments that cohabit the political spectrum of the reactionary right at the international level. This phenomenon has been systematically investigated by intellectuals who have been publishing their analyzes both in academia, in scientific journals, dissertations and theses, as well as through essays in spaces aimed at fostering public debate. In addition to the nature of the phenomenon itself, there is also a dispute between the definition of whether the term “bolsonarismo” is a concept, category or just a neologism. Aiming to contribute to clarifying the terms of this dispute, at first the study draws a panoramic picture of the definitions mobilized by authors from the academic world who research the reactionary right and then privileges the analyzes of different Marxist matrices about bolsonarismo, relying on both scientific productions and essay matrices. In order to verify the validity and applicability of the term bolsonarismo as a concept, the method of the history of concepts by Reinhart Koselleck was used, through which it was possible to verify that the word bolsonarismo came to have a semantic, heuristic and polysemic value, converting the neologism into an explanatory concept of reality.