only corection on this is that lula started as trade unionist and endeup socdem, he was a pretty serious leftist and he still is but i feel like lula understands it better than us that you can't do the change through the electoral system, so he is doing harm reduction, also on the achievements thing is kinda of a complicated affair because the sheer amount people that went from starvation to being the lower middle class is kinda of impressive by itself, lt is the only thing lula really has over a lot of the latam leaders is that he somehow did it from inside one of the most conservative political systems in latam