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Concerned about what it calls a counterrevolution of the “fascinating” far right to reach power in the western world, Historian Fernando Rosas has just launched the book “Velha Rights, New Rights”. Reputed academic, was a political prisoner, tortured by Pide and lived for years in clandestinity. It is with skepticism that looks at the ride of the most radical right, heirs of the fascisms of the past, now enhanced by the owners of the social networks algorithms that make elections. Fernando Rosas warns of the dangers of “social sleepwalking” and “Banality of Evil”: “A new dog world is being created. Progressive and humanistic forces should be concerned with this violent technocracy and resist. ” Listen to him in the first conversation with Bernardo Mendonça
The world sometimes seems to move back in the back, to dark, inhuman, and dystopian goose bumps. With the recent inauguration of Donald Trump, who is again president of the US – indecency and hatred gain a new breath and the economic power of a millionaire technology is sitting with him at the head of one of the largest nations in world.
No one knows well what is coming, but it is certain that we can learn from the great ills and horrors that happened back there.
Historian and professor Fernando Rosas states that almost 80 he was obliged to return to the historical study of fascism and his latest neo-fascist substitutes, addressing old right and new right.
And in this podcast conversation, it tells what can bring canonical fascism from the 1920s to 1945 of the new and emerging far-right formations in Western Europe, its faithful heirs. A story that developed in his latest book “Velha Directions, New Directs”, edited by China’s ink.
It is certain that neo -fascism has come to power in the last decade in several countries in Europe, such as in Italy or Hungary, and has gained expression in many other countries, such as Portugal, with an far right party created in 2019 that Already have 50 seats in Parliament.
What similarities and inspirations have these new extreme right political forces with past fascist regimes? What does they feed them and who interest them? And what does it matter to do and reflect to fight them in democracy? These are some of the questions released right in the start of the first part of this episode.
In this apparent moment of transition, what freedoms are now at risk and what role the democratic and anti -fascist left – but also the democratic and anti -fascist rights – can and have in society to resist and defeat threats from the far right? What misconceptions, bundle and illusions, it is important to dismantle?
This is what this historian, who became a deputy and candidate for the presidency of the Republic, tries to answer.
The second part of this conversation is available on Saturday morning.
As you know, the generic is signed by Márcia and has the collaboration of He had taken. The portraits are by José Fernandes. And the sonoplasty of this podcast is João Ribeiro.
