also formed a governing coalition based on a gigantic corruption scheme; its policies helped the very poor and it helped the very wealthy even more. There's a class bias against Lula and the process against him is flawed and he had spurious relations with the private sector.
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Lula's Workers’ Party is like the Democrats in the US. They hinder substantial progress, due to ideological impulses but also because they are beholden to corporate interests (sounds familiar?). Sadly, Lula chose to use his political capital to lobby for private business.
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The process against Lula has not been totally fair from the get go. But the PT narrative exonerates itself completely; it's too neat. Whereas reality is much messier. Yet the PT narrative has won over the international Left.
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Lula’s a millionaire lobbyist who was allowed due process. Those struggling on the margins of society, in the favelas, in the rural areas, in the forests—suffering the consequences of policy choices of the Workers Party—are the ones who need solidarity of the international Left.
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This, illustrative of the PT's talking points uncritically reproduced by its supporters, beyond hyperbolic, it's outright false: its agenda never "sought to undo Brazil's oligarchical political system". While it improved the lives of the many, the tiny elites were the big winnerspic.twitter.com/BuQVviRwrx
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This recent tweet by
@ggreenwald illustrates common misconceptions of the international left about Brazil’s political crisis. So, I set out to unpack it: https://medium.com/@bernajurema/4-things-the-international-left-gets-wrong-about-brazils-political-crisis-9de8c02604bf …https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/986381962859483137?s=21 …Show this thread -
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio Jr of @PSOLOficial: “Associating the defense of democracy with Lula’s defense is a sophistry that only benefits Lula himself. ... The future of democracy depends on massive riots of the workers in all of the nation.” https://jacobinmag.com/2018/02/brazil-lula-corruption-democracy-crisis-new-republic …pic.twitter.com/0L9hpSG7TI
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