A identidade do antipetismo e do petismo em narrativas de simpatizantes do Partido dos Trabalhadores

Abstract

The investigations of Operação Lava Jato and the mobilization of right-wing groups against the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) put it at the most critical moment in its history. In this context, the objective of this study is to identify and analyze, in this situation of open conflict with its political opponents, the construction of identity attributes for petistas and antipetistas in reports of sympathizers of the Partido dos Trabalhadores. For this were analyzed using the discourse analysis method proposed by discursive social psychology, comments made in response to posts site Conversa Afiada journalist Paulo Henrique Amorim, politically aligned with the Partido dos Trabalhadores in 2015. It’s a site majority frequented by sympathizers of the Partido dos Trabalhadores. The analysis categories were identified that supporters and “petismo” militants mobilize when they speak of themselves and of political opponents. It was observed that dishonesty, conservatism and anti-nationalism are central features in the identity of “antipetismo” built by PT. Belonging to the political left, on the other hand, presents itself as a central feature of the movement’s identity in which they operate these militants, a movement which would be the victim, they said, a coup organized by a right constituted by the business community, the media and sectors of the brazilian state.