Lula’s worker’s party in Brazil has both won the lottery and built a great strayegy with the prize.
After Trump announced sanctions on Brazil, the major media outlets of the country, usually very right wing and all obviously ran by land owners, are either echoing the government’s communication on the matter, or have Lula on for great interviews about it.
What probably happened is that the sanctions would affect the earnings of one of the classes that run the country: land owners/large farmers. On one hand, they have Lula’s party and allies, who have been mostly anti-us imperialism, and Bolsonaro and allies, whose whole thing was promising to give every last bit of our land to Americans. Well, who could possibly be their best bet in this situation? Now the fucking worker’s party is seizing the nationalism discussion away from the fascists and wrapping it around some form of anti-imperialism.
The most interesting thing is the situation that is being drawn: it is now in the best interest of the country’s capitalists and landowners that they support the anti-imperialist front, and the leftists are actually taking advantage of this to get stronger. Does this seem absolutely insane to anybody else? It might be the weed I may have just now, but this realization blew my mind
This was a great read. IV and V are the kind of thing that is so obviously correct that it becomes absolutely self evident the moment it enters your head for the first time.
On another note, I now know why communist parties in the global south tend to be maoist