If David Bell in his book Men on Horseback (2020) focuses on what is political charisma, how it functions, and what it means ‘to write its history’, this article examines how Brazil's ex-President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (‘Lula’) acquired charisma during the dramatic 1978–80 metalworkers’ strikes in the industrial ABC region of São Paulo, Brazil. While generating a vast literature, scholars of the ABC strikes have evaded the question of how Lula, the gifted organiser, emerged as a recognisably charismatic figure. This article explains where, when and why this happened and how a charismatic bond was forged as 100,000 stigmatised, fearful, self-doubting ‘peons’ came to constitute themselves as a locally articulated social actor, a group in fusion, whose boldness and creativity led to extraordinary feats of organisation and mobilisation. Arguing against conflating charisma and populism, it also establishes the utility of the theorisation of group-making advanced in the Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960) by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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自下而上的魅力诞生：卢拉、ABC 的金属工人罢工和巴西政治的社会历史

如果大卫贝尔在他的书中马背上的男人(2020) 重点关注什么是政治魅力、它如何发挥作用以及“书写历史”的意义，本文探讨了巴西前总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦（“卢拉”）如何在戏剧性的 1978 年期间获得魅力——巴西圣保罗 ABC 工业区 80 名金属工人罢工。在产生大量文献的同时，ABC 罢工的学者们回避了天才组织者卢拉如何成为公认的魅力人物的问题。本文解释了这一切发生的地点、时间和原因，以及如何在 100,000 名被污名化、恐惧、自我怀疑的“苦工”中建立起一种魅力纽带，将自己塑造成一个在当地表达清晰的社会行为者，一个融合的群体，他们的大胆和创造力引领组织和动员的非凡壮举。反对将魅力和民粹主义混为一谈，辩证理性批判让-保罗·萨特 (1960)。