Nationalism and Socialism: Nobles, lower officers and proletariat

That's who we are: that wonderful mix and potency. But where are those old patriarchs and the echoes of their cries?...

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I do not consider the comparison made with Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro – aka Bozo – and the famous anti-Jew in history: Adolf Hitler.

Firstly, this comparison is not fair because it would be difficult for Hitler to make a solid agreement with Jews or to exalt the flag of Israel, as our President of the Republic does.

Secondly, it is unlikely that Adolf Hitler would say "I love you Trump"; but, on the contrary, he would be producing many weapons and many planes to have the same capacity as the United States itself has to defend itself.

Thirdly, Mr. Gottfried Feder would never sell his strategic state-owned companies, let alone his National Bank. On the contrary, it would open wide credit to the national industry.

The fourth item that differentiates these two individuals is the fact that although Hitler is part of a right-wing regime, specifically autocratic, he defends (at the same time) the second political-economic position of modernity, that is, Socialism; on the other hand, the Brazilian President identifies with Capitalism and [in particular] the Neoliberalism of Friedman and Margareth Thatcher.

The point of intersection between the supporting characters of this chronicle is precisely in the low level of military hierarchy of both; one corporal and the other a reserve captain. Both Hitler and Bolsonaro represent the popular, mediocre and stupid part of any army. The pretentious technocracy of the Nazi-Facist Regime is in the subversion of the low officers over the Military Aristocracy.

Who is Hitler next to Bismarck? Who is the "Bozo" near Duque de Caxias? In fact, every dictatorship comes from the middle class or the proletariat. It is a revenge regime. It is a grudge erupting into violence; it is the poor of heritage and spirit with cruel envy against those in power. Hitler and Bolsonaro are also proletarians, but the latter no longer has a grudge against the rich. He had it in his military days ... he even looked like a communist, because he complained about his salary, he wanted to blow everything up ...

Therefore, the repeated lie of the Left does not hold. Bolsonaro did nothing similar to what Hitler would do. He did not start building a Brazilian atomic bomb, he did not build tanks and fighter jets, he did not double the number of Armed Forces and he did not militarize infrastructure companies either. So far, with Paulo Guedes in charge of the Government, only the PSDB agenda has tried to be fulfilled with little success. If it is to criticize the current President of our country, let it be because he is liberal. Nationalism and Socialism in this government go a long way...

The Left, moreover, cannot say anything because Stalin looks more like Hitler than the current President of the Republic. Both are autocrats, authoritarians, repressors and interventionists. The only difference is that private property is cooperative in the USSR and corporate in Nazi Germany. The kolkhoz, according to Stalin himself, were not of the state.

However, the main point of our exposition is the pathetic idolization of "Nationalists" by foreign characters.

Who needs Hitler having a Floriano Peixoto. Who needs Friedman having a Rui Barbosa? Who needs Dugin having a Mello Mattos? How many have read Matias Aires?

Portugal was the first Modern National State, the first successful coalition between nobles and bourgeois. Germany, on the other hand, lagged behind by more than 500 years. Italy, ditto. We beat the French and the English several times on our territory. They're out in the cold because they've had enough. There is no reason not to be proud and fearless.

No alpha male that roamed the face of the Earth dominated more widely than the Brazilian Luso Colonial Patriarch! Lord of territory, weapons, slaves and, at the same time, legislator, diplomat and merchant. A whole man in every way, free on every level. Not even the church held back the magnificent wolf chief of men. The church was, rather, a marriage etiquette. Rules for Maidens (great function, by the way).

The Iberian man lived in fear, hidden between walls, fleeing from barbarians and Ottomans, while the Portuguese Colonial Patriarch lived in a large house with a terrace, without railings and raised slaves just as he raised his chickens in a society of perfect domination through the mestizos. The handsome black men from the big house with privileges and whims, playing the role of today's civil servant... A lot of power in a paradisiacal territory with indian and black women in abundance in the woods and vast farms.

That's who we are: that wonderful mix and potency. But where are those old patriarchs and the echoes of their cries?

I heard people say in Recife: "It would have been better if we had been colonized by the Dutch".

I replied:

- There's still time! Take your mother to a cabaret in Amsterdam.

I stopped listening to that nonsense… How can a gentleman not honor his ancestry? After all, who is Hitler next to Dom Pedro I? Who is Mussolini next to Rodrigues Alves? Who is Stalin next to Juscelino Kubitschek? What is this Nationalism that looks for alien icons? What son of the country is this without a known father? What warrior is this who kneels before the enemy arrives?

Another very important point to be considered is that none of these pathetic dictatorial regimes of low officialdom would be possible without the aid of mass communication; and at the time, in particular, the radio. Note that Getúlio Vargas (the queen of lieutenants) himself, even in her death, seemed to be starring in a Radio soap opera – tacky and melodramatic.

Moreover, the Government's militarism, unlike the State's militarism and all its excess, resentment and exacerbated demonstration of violence and masculinity, makes one suspect what one is in the face of what one wants to look like. In ancient times, when one fought alongside brothers, uncles and first degree cousins (and even, in times when generals went ahead and battles were scheduled outside the urban perimeter), there was a family spirit in the social group. and not that gang feeling emanating from the Nazifacist.

This desire to blame someone, to find a scapegoat, to do group violence, appearing as the good and the pure in front of a weaker one, just as the Nazi ideology did (because it felt oppressed by the Treaty of Versailles, let's admit it), is what in the opposite direction to where you want to walk. Aristocratic Men do not like standardization or State or Church, just like the aforementioned Colonial Luso Brasileiro Patriarch. Man (masculine) does not accept orders with pride, except if it comes from his progenitor. As the labor middle-class revolution [promoted by Nazifacism] spreads and everyone aims for the maximum of the State, we move away from the patriarch who operates in the family.

Finally, I say the following to the Brazilian Nationalist Infantes, worshipers of the lower officialdom or foreign proletariat:

- I could even respect Germanic nationalism if it hadn't just been mediocre in class and spirit. I could understand the youth's enthusiasm if, unlike the "National Socialist German Workers' Party", the supposed association of good citizens were called the "Nationalist Party of Prussian Gentlemen". That way it would make more sense.

Patriotic Greetings,

Douglas Mattos.

Philosopher.