The close relations between China and Brazil were underlined and reinforced with the China visit of Vice President Geraldo Alckmin in early June. The distinguished Brazilian visitor met with President Xi Jinping on June 7. Xi said China and Brazil are like-minded good friends, and good partners walking hand in hand. “In April last year, … Continue reading Xi: China and Brazil are like-minded good friends and good partners walking hand in hand
Completely agree, and I think there’s a broader point here that any serious political change is a long and complex process that will have many setbacks. One of the traps people fall into is thinking that change can be accomplished via single action like a protest, a strike, or an election. Lack of realization that it’s going to be a struggle and that people need to commit to this struggle for a long term vision is how movements fall apart.
One of the best recent examples of this was the whole Bernie movement in US. He managed to organize and motivate millions of young people across the country, but all that was focused on winning an election without any broader vision. Once he was shuffled off in favor of Biden the whole thing fizzled overnight. This illustrates why a politically literate and principled vanguard is so important.
I know for sure that it takes time, but the issue, is that Lula’s strategy inside the country seems to be treading away from lasting change and more into the hands of the pressures of the capital, one of those austerity inducing measures, and quite a heavy one, is from one of his main allies, the equivalent the secretary of treasury, which was the presidential candidate when Lula was in jail. There is quite a bit of departure from a leftist line on his government in many issues, and a concerning lack of organized mass movements in the country. So the struggle is quite real, and rough
Indeed, Lula strikes me like a version of Bernie in many ways. He’s not trying to create a dictatorship of the proletariat, but rather to stabilize the current capitalist system.
Completely agree, and I think there’s a broader point here that any serious political change is a long and complex process that will have many setbacks. One of the traps people fall into is thinking that change can be accomplished via single action like a protest, a strike, or an election. Lack of realization that it’s going to be a struggle and that people need to commit to this struggle for a long term vision is how movements fall apart.
One of the best recent examples of this was the whole Bernie movement in US. He managed to organize and motivate millions of young people across the country, but all that was focused on winning an election without any broader vision. Once he was shuffled off in favor of Biden the whole thing fizzled overnight. This illustrates why a politically literate and principled vanguard is so important.
I know for sure that it takes time, but the issue, is that Lula’s strategy inside the country seems to be treading away from lasting change and more into the hands of the pressures of the capital, one of those austerity inducing measures, and quite a heavy one, is from one of his main allies, the equivalent the secretary of treasury, which was the presidential candidate when Lula was in jail. There is quite a bit of departure from a leftist line on his government in many issues, and a concerning lack of organized mass movements in the country. So the struggle is quite real, and rough
Indeed, Lula strikes me like a version of Bernie in many ways. He’s not trying to create a dictatorship of the proletariat, but rather to stabilize the current capitalist system.