“NÓS VERSUS ELES”: EXPLICANDO O “ATAQUE AOS TRÊS PODERES” A PARTIR DA CONCEPÇÃO DE INIMIGO EM CARL SCHMITT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22409/mkq8mt55Abstract
The present study aims to answer the following question: how can the idea of enemy in Carl Schmitt's political thought serve to understand the undemocratic acts that occurred on January 8, 2023? The work is justified by the investigative need to explain the motivations for the episode mentioned from the perspective of the Bolsonaro protesters who participated in the event. As a hypothesis to be tested, it is proposed that the acts mentioned above finds an ideological basis in Schmitt's political thought regarding the defining criterion of the enemy. Therefore, the research adopts a qualitative methodology of an exploratory nature. As results obtained, confirmation of the qualitatively tested hypothesis was observed, based on the similarity between the ideological bases. It is concluded that Schmitt's political thought is useful for understanding the acts in focus to the extent that the protesters believed they were acting legitimized by the leader's will in combating the enemy, using jus belli.