INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS ON SOCIAL FASCISM AND THE COUNTERPOINT OF THE EDUCATING CITY

Abstract

The term fascism has resurfaced in contemporary times, designating totalitarian models of government, permeated with a neoliberal inclination. To that extent, it is necessary to think of ways to oppose this system that excludes and disregards the minimum rights of human beings. This article aims to trace an investigative route, albeit preliminary, on the emergence of Social Fascism in contemporary times, arising from the crisis of the social contract of modernity and the neoliberal influence, mainly in Brazil. With this theoretical and conceptual framework, the research question intends to ask: how can the educating city act in counterpoint to the neoliberal fascist influence? This is a qualitative, exploratory and bibliographic research, anchored in the analytical-hermeneutic method. Initially, for the construction of concepts, thinkers such as Antunes (2020), Santos (2010, 2021), Castells (2020), Dardot and Laval (2016), Foucault (2008), Stanley (2020), Cabezudo (2004), Lefevre (2001) will be used. To start the research, an analysis of the key concepts was carried out, in order to build a possible answer to the question that drives this exploration, proposing conclusions, even if provisional, in the final analyzes and reflections. As a result of the research, we consider that the educating city, due to its objectives, precepts and scope of action, can be a potent possibility of resistance to the model of social fascism.