The evaluation is by Valter Pomar, historian and professor of UFABC, in an interview with Rádio Brasil de Fato on Sunday (October 28)

The current polarized political scenario in Brazil, according to the historian Valter Pomar, shows that the ideological dispute in the country is stronger than ever. In an interview with Rádio Brasil de Fato, UFABC professor said that the extreme right's anti-political speech is a way to act politically.

Pomar evaluates that the strengthening of conservatism, centered on the figure of Jair Bolsonaro, generates responses from society. "This, on the other hand, also leads to a greater politicization, a greater clarification, a greater search for ways to face the problems facing the country. The scenario of Brazilian society, as a whole, is of great politicization," he says.

The professor emphasizes that a significant part of society, including the large business sector, a part of the middle and popular sectors, has been seduced by a neo-fascist position. However, on the other hand, a large opposition political and social front was formed in the last period.

In this scenario, according to Pomar, the country's problem is the economic-social model that will prevail. He reinforces that the already scarce social participation in the discussions related to the national wealth runs even more risks.

"During the Lula and Dilma governments, there was an attempt to increase the participation of workers and popular sectors in national wealth. What the people, groups and parties that gave the coup against President Dilma and that now support Bolsonaro intend, is the opposite of that. It is to reduce the participation of the workers and of the popular sectors in the national wealth," sustains the historian.

In the opinion of the expert, only the electoral contest is not enough for the neoliberal forces to dismantle national sovereignty, and for this, there is a manipulation of several mechanisms, with the participation of the judiciary.

"What explains the fact that democratic freedoms are at the center of the agenda is that the ruling class, in order to achieve its goal of reducing workers' participation in the distribution of national wealth, wants to reduce democratic freedom in a brutal way."

Valter Pomar also believes that the dispute over the worldview of people should not occur only in the election season. Mechanisms such as cultural media and politics are central to the ideological dispute.

"If you do not have mechanisms through which you can spread a democratic, popular, leftist worldview, this cultural battle will be lost. And it being lost, it is very difficult to win other battles. The electoral battle, for example, is not won or lost on voting day, it is actually being built, a defeat or a victory, over time, through mechanisms such as these," he points out.



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October 29, 2018