Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right

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Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right is written by Georg Wink and published by Bibliotopía. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 6079934817 (ISBN 10) and 9786079934811 (ISBN 13).

Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological roots of the so-called New Right in Brazil. The book traces the continuity and resilience of a system of thought based on the idea of a God-given hierarchical order to be defended against any social contract and modernizing relativization. It explains in detail how today a diverse movement — which includes actors ranging from the authoritarian Bolsonaro wing to economic liberals to the military to both Catholic and evangelical religious conservatives – assumes unanimously the ideas of this tradition as underlying premises of their political action. Though not always explicitly, this drives the self-declared “liberal-conservative” but rather anti-modernist reaction which claims to liberate an imaginary authentic “Brazil” from an aberrant “State” – and in so doing intends to preserve inherited privilege in an extremely unequal society.