A ascensão e o extremismo das Novas Direitas no Brasil: uma análise das suas ideias e da internet como meio de propagação do seu discurso

Abstract

The present work analyzes the rise of political extremism by the right-wing movements in Brazil. It makes a parallel between the extreme right-wing movements of the past, such as Italian fascism and German Nazism, and those that emerged after the 2013 manifestations, identifying and problematizing, from different historical processes, their speeches and the means used to its spread. These movements were characterized, in general, by exacerbated nationalism, by the cult of violence, by hatred against social minorities and by the veneration of the leader or political representative. For this, our research was based on the reflections of Hannah Arendt, Umberto Eco, Eric Hobsbawn, Leandro Konder, Vladimir Safatle, Jason Stanley, Giuliano Da Empoli, Silvio Almeida and Luís Felipe Miguel. Such authors contribute to understanding the fascisms of the past and the present, the rise and characteristics of the new right-wings and their relationship with fake news. In order to understand the discourses of these movements in Brazil, we investigated the imagery sources shared on the social network Facebook. Finally, we mention that these movements can be characterized by the mixture of a neoliberal and neoconservative discourse and that social networks are an important means for sharing their ideas, including negationism and historical revisionism, in addition to Fake News.