A CONSTRUÇÃO DA IDENTIDADE NACIONAL BRASILEIRA:

CORDIALIDADE E PATRIMONIALISMO VERSUS ELITISMO E ESCRAVIDÃO

Abstract

Politics is expressive for the construction of spatiality, through which it is possible, from representative democracy, to establish a link between citizens and the management of the territory in which they live. This article delineated a critique of the logic of patrimonialism as the origin of corruption and of the country's socioeconomic problems. It is understood that this way of situating the people themselves does not encompass the genesis of the real reasons that explain the country's inequality. This way of thinking about the nation establishes a widespread corruption, given as particularly Brazilian, which would derive from Portuguese colonialism and would intensely reverberate in the country's population. This is often interpreted as that of the “Brazilian way”, which receptively welcomes the biases surrounding the legislation, being, in this sense, cordial with all kinds of misconduct. This analysis is carried out from a bibliographical review based on dialectical historical materialism which, through a rescue to the past, establishes different antitheses in order to arrive at a synthesis. Finally, it is noteworthy that as a result it was established that the idea of ​​patrimonialism as a genetic factor of corruption and a problematic assumption in the Brazilian case is a rhetoric permeated by misunderstandings, as established throughout the work.