Proposed research agenda on the Latin American right-wing
Waldo Ansaldi, profesor titular consulto e investigador senior, Grupo de Estudios Sociohistóricos de América Latina (GESHAL), Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe (IEALC), Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. waldoansaldi@derecho.uba.ar.
A Rosalba Mora Sierra, en México
«Una mentira no tendría sentido si la verdad no fuera percibida como peligrosa».
Alfred Adler
«Si no fueran tan temibles, nos darían risa. Si no fueran tan dañinas, nos darían lástima».
Joan Manuel Serrat
Los macarras de la moral.
«Si nuestros conocimientos se quedan en las revistas académicas y no llegan a la sociedad, de poco servirán».
Steven Forti
Neoliberalism has degraded and liquefied politics to the point of emptying it of content, ideas and arguments. In this way, the right-wing builds its discursive arsenal by resorting to lies, fake news and cynicism. When confronting its adversaries, today’s right-wingers – the same as before, except in different clothes – do not engage conceptually, but reduce such confrontations to a discourse based on hate, anger and indifference. The successful strategy of purporting to be anti-politics in order to do politics in a different way is the first great lie. Common sense has been generated in majorities who are disenchanted with reality, oversaturated with misinformation and tend to opt for consumption over citizenship. In this context, this article proposes a more rigorous way of studying the Latin American right.
Key words: Latin America, right, far-right, antipolitics, lies
How to cite this article: Ansaldi, Waldo. «Propuesta para una agenda de investigación sobre las derechas latinoamericanas». Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, n.º 132 (diciembre de 2022), p. 123-144. DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2022.132.3.123
Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, nº 132, p. 123-144
Quadrimestral (October-December 2022)
ISSN:1133-6595 | E-ISSN:2013-035X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2022.132.3.123
Reception date: 12.07.22; Acceptance date: 03.10.22
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