O movimento escola sem partido e a ascensão de pautas neoliberais e neoconservadoras na educação: duas faces reacionárias de uma mesma moeda

Abstract

The heritage of 20th century totalitarian regimes is the normalization of barbarism and the distrust of new democratic regimes, It’s Hobsbawm’s idea of “Total War” in which you have to fight “enemies” in every field, all the time. Conspiracy phenomena have always hovered in our atmosphere and can be expressed, in last century’s Brazil, through the Civil-Military Dictatorship, a coup given under the subterfuge of a supposed communist attack. Today, in the 21st century, we have alive in the core of conservations groups the ideas of conspiracy that would culminate in a Gay-Communist Dictatorship, whose efforts are focused on the destruction of the “traditional Brazilian family”, of the “ideal” Brazilian citizen. The experience of the democratic crisis, in turn, is a reality experienced by several countries, including Brazil, where the 2016 coup and the election of Jair Messias Bolsonaro, are examples of the suspension of the young and fragile democracy. Using authors such as Fernando de Araújo Penna, Michel Apple, Hannah Arendt, among others, the aim of this paper is to analyze one of the anti-democratic, anti-intellectual and reactionary expressions of the contemporary Brazil: the Escola Sem Partido Movement (MESP). The text is divided into three moments where, first, a historical line of the Escola Sem Partido (ESP) is drawn from its creation in 2004 to the present days. Next, we seek to know the political and social agents behind this phenomenon, in particular neoliberal, political and social agents behind this phenomenon, in particular neoliberal and neoconservative groups, analyzing them from a reactionary perspective and analyzing their views of the word and education. Finally, it discusses the liberal and conservative agendas that are safeguarded through the ESP. It is concluded that the ESP is the point of convergence pf neoliberal and neoconservative agendas, a meeting facilitated by social networks used, in this case, as a powerful anti-intellectual and reactionary tool.