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The historian, teacher and writer Lilia Schwarcz analyzed today, in an interview with the program Roda Viva, that nostalgia for the military wing is “imaginary” and has no place. According to her, the Brazilian government creates an image of the military dictatorship – from 1964 to 1984 in Brazil – of a past that did not exist.
“The first military government was a failure, both Deodoro [da Fonseca] as Floriano [Peixoto] ruled [no século 19] under siege. Our dictatorship [que teve início na década de 1960] delivered a failed state, a terrible inflation. The cream of the crop of 1964, which is being reflected in this idea of a civilizing mission, is not being realized ”, he said.
For Lilia, Brazil has always been authoritarian, so Bolsonaro’s election cannot be taken by surprise and “this mystique of the army has always been part of this farce.”
We are talking about a government that makes a mystique of the dictatorship, calls the coup democratic, as if it existed, and claims a past that never existed. This past is created by Jair Bolsonaro
Lilia Schwarcz, historian
Bolsonaro is the coup itself
Still talking about the president, Lilia has the opinion that Bolsonaro “does not need a coup [de poder], he is the scam ”. For her, there was an attempt to use the coronavirus pandemic for ideological purposes and strengthen the vision of the Executive.
“An attempt to use the pandemic for ideological, political purposes, this always happens, this was also the case in 2018. The problem is the use it makes. Bolsonaro’s use of emergency aid, when we know that at first it was against the help, the use it makes to impose a drug whose validity is not proven … “, he recalled
“For the future, nobody owns him, but it seems to me that he is preparing in a model in which he does not need the blow. He is the blow itself.”
“1984”
Another example used by the historian was George Orwell’s classic “1984”, which features an authoritarian government whose supreme leader is Big Brother.
Lilia said that the book is still very current, especially in Brazil in the 21st century, for showing the “passion we have for authoritarianism.” “This image we have of the president, of the great politician as a great father, is wrong. Patrimonialism is one of the great enemies of the Republic,” he said.
For her, what we have now in the Bolsonaro government is a similar situation, since the assumption of a populist government is that “it is information and science.”
That is what we have now, a president who prefers to break the news to his followers, complains to the press, says he is going to slap, does not respect the press as a fundamental actor.
Government culture war
Lilia believes that the racial issue is a great contradiction of Brazilian democracy and that the idea that racial democracy is a myth. This can be seen, according to her, with the current president of the Fundação Cultural Palmares, Sérgio Camargo.
“The government is hijacking the democratic guidelines, not only the symbols like green and yellow, but also the guidelines, producing a culture war,” he said.
“What does it mean to put a president in a Palmares foundation that wants to end the history of blacks? We know that the black population in Brazil has a double death: physical death and the death of memory, what does it mean to put a person against this memory? ” “, he questioned.
