Tendências do irracionalismo no pensamento administrativo-político dos militares a partir do Projeto de Nação do Instituto SAGRES

Abstract

The present research aimed to understand, through immanent analysis, the nature of the military's administrative-political thinking expressed in materials from the SAGRES Institute with the aim of revealing its irrationalist tendencies. To achieve this, based on the elucidations of the Brazilian philosopher José Chasin, the possibility of a legitimate approach to the multifaceted Brazilian military ideology was resumed, making it possible to delimit military administrative-political thinking as an ideological object to be particularly scrutinized. Among the materials from the SAGRES Institute, a military think tank, the Nation Project stands out as the guiding thread of the immanent analysis carried out, which was also carried out alongside a series of other articles, documents and videos authored by this same Institute. As a result of the analysis carried out, it was possible to grasp the “progressive” (although conservative) nature of military administrative-political thinking in economic terms and “regressive” with regard to the ideopolitical plane. When focused on the economic plane, the military administrative-political thinking crystallized in the Nation Project informs a genuine “progressive” (conservative) proposal, taking as its virtue the primacy of Capital and the “free market” in the face of the “subsidiarity” of the State, this the latter considered responsible for only inducing economic development, a proposition encouraged by the impetus of “Development”, a basic element of military ideology and the explicit objective of “projecting” “National Power”, another fundamental element of military ideology, in the arena of interstate economic dispute. The analysis of the proposition of “progress” (conservative) on screen revealed a variant of the direct apologetics of the capitalist mode of production supported by the appearance of rationality in its notes, a tendency typical of the “new form of irrationalism”, as pointed out by Lukács in the Epilogue of The Destruction of Reason. This appearance came about from the conjunction between politicistical criticisms on the part of the Nation Project regarding the inherent insufficiencies and failures of the State as manager of the capitalist economy and the consequent remarks of a supposedly “technical” and “pragmatic” nature as a way of rationalizing and improving state action focused on the economic plan. When focused on the ideopolitical plane, military administrative-political thinking informs a “regressive” proposal openly linked to conspiracies, which is encouraged by the impetus to maintain “National Security” and “National Cohesion”, basic elements of military ideology. The analysis of the materials revealed a certain romantic “tonic” that permeates the SAGRES Institute’s criticism of the so-called “Ultracapitalism”, from which this military think tank identifies the elements supposedly proving the formation of a conspiratorial “World Globalist Movement”, the main representative of “Ultracapitalism” and an unquestionable threat to the “National Security” and “Cohesion” of the Brazilian people. Still on the ideopolitical level, SAGRES reiterates the hardened military anti-communism, a marker of irrationalism, incurring the delirious criticism of the so-called main representative of Socialism today: “cultural Marxism”, which, like “globalism”, positions itself as a threat to national “Security” and “Cohesion”. This time, the Nation Project incurs a debacle of reason by once again vehemently denouncing the existence of such conspiratorial political-ideological adversaries while at the same time calling on the State to comply with regressive and persecutory measures aimed at combating them.