Memória antipetista e horizonte autoritário durante a Nova República (2003-2016)

Abstract

This research deals with the impact and consolidation of a narrative that composed a memory with authoritarian and anti-Workers Party characteristics during the New Republic, through the investigation of works written by journalists and intellectuals who sought to record the political daily life in the media during the Governments of the Workers' Party between 2003 and 2016. The research detects the consolidation of an anti-PT memory in these works - superimposed on the traditional Brazilian anticommunism - and elaborated under the management of the mainstream media in the period referred. It starts from the analysis of books written by anti-Workers Party political columnists about the Workers' Party governments and investigates them from a historiographical point of view with the help of the concepts of narrative and memory. The study sought to understand the roots of the phenomenon of anti-Workers Party at the levels of historical consciousness. The conclusion of the analysis of the phenomenon of anti-Workers Party (anti-communist) memory in the press and its political consequences pointed to the existence of a historical awareness at the cultural level that conditions the permanent opening of a horizon of authoritarian expectation in Brazilian society.