Conservatism and irrationalism

bolsonarism as a reaction of capital to its structural crisis

Abstract

This study aims to analyze ontologically the “bolsonarism” phenomenon, in order to understand it at this most determinants elements. Based on the notion of ontology (LUKÁCS, 2013), we understand that the Capitalism Production Mode is passing by a process of structural crisis that started at 2008 and reaches its control sociometabolic horizon. The rise of labor class degradation increases the situation of material and spiritual society pauperization and excite the individuals to a condition of permanent dissatisfaction. However, as this revolt is quite spontaneous, reinforced by this capture per the neoliberal rationality, the liberal-conservative thought, such as the “bolsonarism”, emerges as a possible synthesis, even if contradictory, of this people dissatisfaction with their life and is consolidated as capital reaction in order to recapture the intellectual and moral direction of the society, even as ensure capital accumulation in an expanded way. Furthermore, the arrest of working-class consciousness and their organizations by the capital through the postmodern ontology limits the policy praxis field of possibilities. Rescue the ontology for the space of class struggle became crucial for the future of the humanity, with the end of introducing a new structural society project able to dispute working class “hearts and minds”.