Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes on Thursday in search of criminals in the first anti-deforestation raids under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to end surging destruction inherited from his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
a succdem in, say, the UK is doing damage control capitalism. ie trying to make sure the pillaging of the NHS isn't too severe.
a succdem in Brazil is also doing damage control. but they are trying to make sure the welfare project isn't derailed half of the way into it's implementation.
Lula isn't the revolutionary vanguard because Brazil, as a whole, is a defeated country from the cold war. neither it's state capitalist nor its left-wing nation projects were allowed to survive the washington consensus. the older quarter of the population was propagandized with anti communist propaganda. the younger quarter might even genuinely believe in the sort of hackfraud capitalist that libertarians propose. but a lot of people in all classes of society understand that being a peripheric economy is a death sentence. so at the end of the day something like a Lula has the support of a rather heterogeneous coalition and is capable of doing real good along the way
This might be wishful thinking but I am curious if his false imprisonment by the guy he just ran in an election against + all the chuds larping a coup will result in a slightly more radical presidency from him
He's in a large coalition with a bunch of neoliberal and conservative parties that came together because their main ideology was pro-democracy and anti-bolsonarism. His main rival in the 1990s, Fernando Cardoso, met with Lula and recorded several videos in support of him, telling how the two were close friends and how both were against the dictatorship in the 1980s. But it seems that most of the population supports the purges.
Lula is singlehandedly making me like succdems
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think about it this way:
a succdem in, say, the UK is doing damage control capitalism. ie trying to make sure the pillaging of the NHS isn't too severe.
a succdem in Brazil is also doing damage control. but they are trying to make sure the welfare project isn't derailed half of the way into it's implementation.
Lula isn't the revolutionary vanguard because Brazil, as a whole, is a defeated country from the cold war. neither it's state capitalist nor its left-wing nation projects were allowed to survive the washington consensus. the older quarter of the population was propagandized with anti communist propaganda. the younger quarter might even genuinely believe in the sort of hackfraud capitalist that libertarians propose. but a lot of people in all classes of society understand that being a peripheric economy is a death sentence. so at the end of the day something like a Lula has the support of a rather heterogeneous coalition and is capable of doing real good along the way
This might be wishful thinking but I am curious if his false imprisonment by the guy he just ran in an election against + all the chuds larping a coup will result in a slightly more radical presidency from him
I want Punished Lula to exist too. :punished-bernie: :lula-bars:
He's in a large coalition with a bunch of neoliberal and conservative parties that came together because their main ideology was pro-democracy and anti-bolsonarism. His main rival in the 1990s, Fernando Cardoso, met with Lula and recorded several videos in support of him, telling how the two were close friends and how both were against the dictatorship in the 1980s. But it seems that most of the population supports the purges.