Non-Party Movement: anti-enlightenment, heteronomy, exclusion

Abstract

Recent years have seen the emergence of the movement Escola Sem Partido (ESP) on the Brazilian scene, a set of convictions and practices that presuppose a type of political-ideological instruction in Brazilian educational institutions - named by them "Marxist indoctrination" -, as well as the dissemination of what they call “gender ideology”. The article proposes to analyze aspects of the ESP in its movement of dispute over schools and, in a broader way, a project of society, observing it as an expression of a long process to construct authoritarianism in Brazil, and the advance of a counterrevolutionary agenda. To this end, the primary documents analyzed are those issued by the movement itself, focusing on the categories with which its proposals are organized, such as the concepts of freedom, education, science, politics, and the ideas and judgments launched against what is supposed to be the dangers of a leftist education, namely: the implementation of a new scale of values ​​contrary to liberal capitalism and morality, seen as Christian. We conclude by addressing how these supposed dangers represent, to ESP, the possibility of repressing sexuality and thought at schools and opposing educational efforts that have sought to generate a secular education committed to the democratization of education.