The “cultural sphere of unique thought which, in addition to dedicating “anti-fascism” as the official ideology of the regime, designated the right of the left as the only permitted right, that is, a right of repentant leftists or centrists, for better or for worse fidelity ( …) [as direitas] surrendered to the correction of the anti-fascist narrative and the cultural domination of the left”.
The analysis – this sentence written by Jaime Nogueira Pinto – is part of the opening text, a “journey to rights”, of the new magazine Criticism XXIwho plans to open, explains Rui Ramos, “a different perspective for people, to bring diversity, plurality. There’s more world outside the left and it’s a fascinating world, a world of great writers, of great authors. We are the open door to reach that other world.”
What were concepts, in Jaime Nogueira Pinto’s lecture, “geometric places initially baptized” [de esquerda e de direita] of captured seats in fundamental political assemblies – the British Parliament and the post-revolutionary French voters”, today is “sick of a vice that persisted after April 25: separating the right from the left on the economic issue, which makes practically no sense todayAnd for a past of “nearly half a century of authoritarian, conservative, and salazarist right” that harmed the “right’s own traditional causes”.
“Values and principles are one thing, instruments and regime another”
As a “reaction to the left-wing parties, the right was deeply concerned about moving away from such traditional, religious and conservative values,” said Jaime Nogueira Pinto. As a result, Rui Ramos adds, the loss of “a cultural and political dimension” through a “prejudice of available education and culture, an impoverishment explained by the weight and dominance of the left”.
The “historical” explanation, says the historian, who shares the direction of the new magazine with Jaime Nogueira Pinto, lies in “the way democracy developed in Portugal and that there was a left that always wanted full reach, not only half the fan, and trying to understand everything And in trying to understand everything, with this dominant culture, [a esquerda] finally on the right side”.
“That’s what happens and often happens. People in Portugal are generally left-wing because they want to be left, and people are right-wing because they’re sent left to right. The reasons a person here in Portugal is right-wing is because he likes certain authors, he likes a certain type of literature, he likes a certain type of culture that is not approved, that is not part of the left’s canon, political solutions that are not adopted or adopted by the left,” argues Rui Ramos.
“We are not looking for people who agree with us”
This is how it is, thinks Jaime Nogueira Pinto, who “aside from the economic view, the Liberal Initiative is on the left”. Coincidentally, Rui Ramos adds, in “Portugal, a liberal is on the right as much as he doesn’t want to. He’s on the right because the left is anti-liberal.”
It is from a quest for reflection that “this group of people has embarked on an editorial project – and we don’t have exactly the same ideas, there are different points of view and ideas”. Who, explains Rui Ramos, “wants not only to resume the tradition of magazines on the right, but also to resume the tradition with a different kind of writing and reading associated with paper, and regain this method of analysis that has never been lost in different countries.” . the United States, England, France, to give some examples, this type of magazine, even in this format approaching a book, is a very common product”.
The new magazine aims to “disclose the intellectual tradition of rights and their current developments”.
THE Criticism XXI “is associated with a longer reading, in which the person reads and rereads, it is linked to this idea of preserving the writing, not just seeing it on screen and moving on to something else. This project has a political and cultural dimension , but also has the dimension of trying to match what we thought still existed: other ways of reading that are not associated with online, with electronic reading, with fast and diagonal reading”.
However, the historian warns, “we are not looking for people who agree with us. We will not comment or political analysis on daily politics, on party politics. That’s not what we exist for. We are a cultural magazine, where the right and others can meet, without being limited by the partisan”.
What matters are “values, what we find in history, literature, film”, because “people know almost nothing about the right and what they know is what the left says. younger generations realize that there is more world, that there are different values , alternatives, writers, thinkers,” emphasizes Jaime Nogueira Pinto.
“Ways of seeing, discussing and viewing things in a multifaceted way, encompassing a range of politically defined families, liberal, conservative, nationalist and all sub-branches of these families,” added Rui Ramos.
So different from the left? “The issues that separate the right from the left – and everyone has his right and his left – are a set of values about the meaning of the economy, private property, that the state is not as big as it is. But essentially it is a certain spiritualism relating to issues of Christianity, with the value of the nation/border, with the family in the traditional sense, the law remains closely associated with this concept. the fact that the right managed to get votes from a working class orphaned by the left to take on minority affairs, social justice”replies Jaime Nogueira Pinto.
“These traditional values,” he says, “can and should be defended in a democracy. Values and principles are one thing, instruments and regime another.”
“Dare to discover other ways of thinking, dare to discover other references. Here we are going to write about topics that are not covered in the traditional press, or otherwise cover topics that are; talk about authors who are probably not the most quoted in this mainstream press; introducing diversity into the media circle of the same people, talking about the same things in the same wayRui challenges Ramos.
THE Criticism XXIof a quarterly publication, which fits “into that appearance of editorial projects that give voice, try to create space for reflection and criticism outside the left, either from a liberal-conservative point of view or from a more conservative nationalist point of view,” considers Rui Ramos, is a of the rare right-wing magazines [em mais de 50 anos, a Política, a Futuro Presente e a Atlântico, que encerrou em 2008, foram as mais significativas] marketed, although there was “pretty strong press in some respects, starting in 1974/75 with the weekly” TimeO DayO CountryO Devila AfternoonO Weekly and The independent. There was a tradition of a very combative press. Since 2008, since Atlântico, there is no longer this tradition of an alternative press to that of the left.”
Explanation? “The dominant culture of the left that ended with time, for electoral reasons, for business cycles and not for doctrine, because it is also on the right.” The right of the PSD? “That’s the answer,” says Jaime Nogueira Pinto, “but I don’t think the PSD is right. Behavior has always depended heavily on leaders”.
Source: DN
