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The government agreement that CDS, PPM, PSD, Chega and IL signed in the Azores has been the subject of heated debate. In this agreement it was established that PSD, CDS and PPM govern in coalition, with the parliamentary approval of Chega and IL.
The news is that Chega was included in that agreement, knowing that this recent party is, what we now call, the populist extreme right, a novelty in our political system.
The populist far-right has grown in recent years around the world, with greater success in the United States with Trump, in Brazil with Bolsonaro, in Hungary with Orbán or in the Philippines with Duterte. But also in France with Le Pen, in Spain with Vox or in Italy with Salvini, this international movement is gaining power and creating media and political impact.
In Portugal, Chega joined the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 and is now joining the Regional Assembly of the Azores in 2020. Surveys indicate some room for growth for this movement in the next legislatures.
These far-right populist movements are characterized by choosing some specific problems of the society in which they operate, promising easy and miraculous solutions to very complex issues.
The simplicity of the speech, the oratory of the leaders of these parties, the invocation of the most fundamentalist religiosity and the well-structured guerrilla campaigns on social networks end up mobilizing a certain electorate. Sometimes enough to get to power.
The truth is that none of this is new. At the beginning of the century. XX, these same artifacts were used to implant fascism and Nazism in Europe, which came to have the tragic consequences proven by the two great world wars and the Holocaust.
Furthermore, the discourse used today by far-right populist parties, demonizing Islamists, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, immigrants, progressives, atheists, Africans or even the world economic order, is a clear sticker. what the fascists and the Nazis did. Only the trampling of the Jews is missing.
And this is where an insurmountable border is drawn at the level of ideological comparisons between the extreme right and communism. The far right is, ideologically, segregationist, supremacist, racist, non-humanist, and undemocratic. Communism is moving towards a society in which everyone contributes according to their means and enjoys them according to their needs. It is a pure humanism (in most Christians, even).
Now, it turns out that all the experiences of the so-called “real socialism” fell into authoritarian, undemocratic, militarized and police systems, with little economic capacity and very corrupt.
Feudal, agrarian and tsarist Russia became the USSR at the expense of invasions and a dictatorial regime, without ever being communist. The same is true of China, Cuba or North Korea (which is nothing more than the only absolutist monarchy of the 21st century).
It is enough to have a minimal reading of Marx to realize that communism can only occur after a profound maturation of capitalism around the world, something that has not happened yet (as I have already written here). In other words, there was Stalinism, Maoism, polpotism, Castroism or Ceausesquism. But not yet, communism.
Thus, while Nazism and Fascism were put into practice, true to ideology, with the terrible results that were seen, Communism was never achieved, and the attempts were all poorly implemented.
In addition, today in Portugal neither the PCP nor the Block call themselves Stalinists or Maoists, nor defenders of concentration camps, death sentences, physical or chemical castrations, segregation of people according to their skin color or philosophical beliefs or the installation of political police. .
The PCP and Bloco are on the humanist side of politics. Enough, no. This is the great frontier. This is the great wall that we must not tear down.
Especially because, as can be seen in Hungary (with successive last minute changes in the electoral law and changes in the constitution) or in the United States (with Trump’s immoral behavior after the electoral defeat), these right-wing populist leaders, as soon as they come to power, the first thing they do is try to subvert the rules so they don’t leave there (Putin, by the way, looks good in this lot, and of course Putin is not communist at all), because they know that if they arrived democratically democratically there they cannot stand.
In any case, while PCP and Bloco, no matter how much they disagree with their economic or social options, today are humanist parties and the liberal democratic system, Chega is not. He is not a humanist, he wants a new Republic and the first thing he would do, if he came to power, would be to end our Constitution and liberal democracy to perpetuate himself dictatorially. With such an agenda, you can’t negotiate.
The author writes according to the old spelling.
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