My dream now is to move to China and create propaganda for the sake of furthering communism. America is so systematically fucked that without literally killing every politician in the country we will never recover. Maybe maoist third worldists are right. We in real doomer hours now.
I think Bernie wouldn't have made any structural changes to our society either. His top issue is clearly universal healthcare and free education, these are ultimately liberal policies that strengthen capitalism over the long term.
Bernie was not going to do things like purge the state department of pro regime change folks in the foreign service. He would've likely chosen a treasury secremovedy that would calm down the markets which would not be performing well due to fears of sweeping change, and he wouldn't want to burn his political capital on this. Scandinavian style social democracy does provide some of the highest standards of living among ordinary folks of anywhere in the world though, but it still isn't socialism.
i know and agree, but that's not my point
my point is that he wanted to organize people to enact these policies, whereas lula wanted to negotiate with politicians in congress; it's similar to a warren vs bernie thing (though lula is a bit more moderate than warren)
these are fundamentally different approaches, the former acknowledges the existence of class warfare and acts on it; which can actually create a structural change in the long term as the experience of organizing has a transformative effect on individuals
this is very well expressed in bernie wanting to double union membership while, during lula's terms, unionization rates actually went down (which is a pretty incredible feat for a former union leader)