BRAZILIAN INTEGRALISM AS A VARIANT OF FASCISM:

The ideology of the leaders of the Brazilian Integralist Action

Resumo

In spite of all the recent studies about “generic fascism” in different countries, they did
not exhaust the pertinence of an analysis of the Brazilian AIB as a permutation of fascist ideology. Thus, the goal of this essay is to establish in a more thorough way which were the components that allow for us to insert the AIB in the wider phenomenon of fascism, as well as the elements that made it a variety with unique characteristics. Using the conceptual morphological approach, this essay presents an ideological pattern of “generic fascism” composed of six core concepts (nation, state, synthesis, revolution, authority and violence), and then proceeds to a close reading of texts by Salgado, Miguel Reale and Gustavo Barroso.