We were all too many: an introduction to some essays on the qualitative topology of Salazarism

Abstract

This text, placed in the sequence of other works by Augusto Joaquim published after April 25^th, is the first part of the introduction to a set of a essays on what the author calls the qualitative topology of Salazarism. Considered by the author as a study of sociological nature - what sets some methodological and epistemological problems that are not dealt in the text - the present article tries to define «the nature of Salazarism». On the other hand the author thinks that Salazarism is characterized by a purpose concerning each category of the Portuguese in order to make them operative pieces of the construction of a «lasting and unseen before» Portugal, able to resist positively to the levelling exigencies of the geo-epoch in which it is inscribed.