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On guard against the high finances: the Thought of Gottfried Feder and Gustavo Barroso on a Comparative Approach (1919-1939)

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Author(s):
Marcelo Alves de Paula Lima
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Sara Albieri; Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro; Osvaldo Luis Angel Coggiola; Adilson de Oliveira Franceschini
Advisor: Sara Albieri
Abstract

This paper aims at comparing the writings of two ideologues who belonged to two important political movements from the 20th century: one from the Brazilian integralism, and the other from German national-socialism Gustavo Barroso and Gottfried Feder, respectively. After a careful reading of these authors works, written on the 1920es and 1930es, we managed to understand that the concept of financial capital was of main importance for both authors to develop a conspiratorial narrative that uncovered a Jewish plot to conquer the world. Based on the Conceptual History, we noticed that the works of Barroso and Feder represented a key moment in the History of the concept of financial capital, especially considering that both of them wrote during the first financial hegemony. However, while Barroso, on the one hand, thought that the struggle against financial capital should be a universal struggle, Feder, on the other, believed that such struggle should have only the German people as its leading actor. Moreover, while Barroso managed to play a major role in the integralist movement until its ending on 1937, Feder ended up marginalized in the Nazi political scenario after the national-socialist seizure of power on 1933. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 15/06566-1 - NATIONAL-SOCIALISM, INTEGRALISMO AND ECONOMIC IMAGINARY: THE THOUGHT OF GOTTFRIED FEDER AND GUSTAVO BARROSO IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (1919-1938)
Grantee:Marcelo Alves de Paula Lima
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master