This is a fair critique of how the PT gets lionized by some of the international left but it does seem to leave off that Temer has been less popular, less legitimate, yet remains in officehttps://medium.com/@bernajurema/4-things-the-international-left-gets-wrong-about-brazils-political-crisis-9de8c02604bf …
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I’m sorry. I suppose when I read “here’s what the International left gets wrong” about Brazil, I read that as the international left, not “the institutional left.”
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That’s the headline. But if you go beyond it you’ll find that’s how it’s characterized
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Like I mentioned on FB and also here, there’s no tension b/t what Greenwald wrote and being critical of the PT/Lula/Dilma. The whole thing is a right wing power grab masquerading as concern for “rule of law,” and it was facilitated by many PT errors. Both can be and are true.
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I don’t deny the power grab. I question the narrative that puts the PT as mere victim when it was an agent, by empowering these reactionary oligarchic sectors instead of confronting them. Lulismo failed. We have to grasp with that.
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Yeah this whole part of your position is absolutely getting lost as your piece circulates, I’m afraid. It’s being read as a liberal critique, not a radical one.
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This is a criticism that I accept. That’s a mistake on my part. I come here from the left. Thanks a lot for engaging, Alejandro. This multi-modal debate was constructive. I appreciate that
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Thank you. I look forward to reading more of your work.
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But while we’re on the subject of fair criticism, as we debated in FB, to dismiss the very real improvements in many people’s lives under Lula/Dilma and instead to cast them as right wing accomplices seems to fit the bill.
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