The Authoritarian thinking in Brazil: origins and actuality

Abstract

This article aims to describe the presence of authoritarian thinking in the Brazilian’s Republic. Authoritarian thinking in Brazil has to be understood in its origins and history by considering it as a long-term process that maintains its actuality. There is a set of questions that we tackle in this paper around which we organized the connection between the origins and contemporary relevance of Brazilian authoritarian thinking: 1) how authoritarian and conservative thinking relates; 2) how conservative and liberal projects will approach each other in Brazil, a dependent economy, in which conservatives originally were constituted as anti-liberals and had a clear national agenda based on a centralized State?; 3) How does conservative, authoritarian and liberal thinking blend together during this process?; 4)Is authoritarian thinking important in our democracy?