[Marxism] Brazil's Markets Show Resilience

[dwalters@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Walter, just who is this "Brigada Marxmailista Revolucionaria" strawmen you want
to throw up? What exactly about the Lula gov't do you like?

That, like many of the radical bourgeois regimes they stand up to Washington?
Sure, this is to be applauded. Anything that helps isolate the US in South
American is to be given some sort of support by anyone who opposes what the
imperialists are doing. Fine...but where is your class analysis of this regime
Walter? A regime that gets *endorsements* from it's own financial markets is
one that has been doing the bidding...*BIDDING* of it's own financial
bourgeoisie: keeping something of a hold on imperialism's penetration of
Brazil's economy (to make room for their own capitalists success) while
completely holding back the working class, enacting "labor reform", cutting
pensions, and doing what everyother respectivable bourgeois gov't does...*there
is no difference* Walter, wake up!

Washington's criticism's of Lula (after years of open endorsement of him by C.
Rice, et al) is to be expected if Lula veers from his *promised* course of
being South America's biggest broker between racicals in power and the US.
Brokering Chavez's deportation of 5 FARC combatants to Colombia (By now
resigend Deciue), sending troops to Haiti (interesting article today on the
role these troops are playing in attacking Haiti's poor), providing sancturary
to Ecuador's last 'radical' (and friend of Lula) run out of Quito by the
"Brigada Marxmailista Revolucionaria" no doubt (meaning the entire population
of the city).

Walter, Lula is not a revolutionary. Even you would admit this. This means he
*has no choice* but to balance between the different social classes in Brazil
while staying within the parameters of capitalism and doing what he can to
*avoid* social conflict and revolution.

You know, you posted this piece about several thousand union members supporting
Lula. I thought, to be honest, that this was a pathedic attempt to show that
Lula has working class support. Of course he does and into the millions, but
one that is shrinking everyday. The CGT, which called that rally, was the
leftovers of the old Brizola corporatist "yellow" unions of the 1950s and
1960s. They were supported for years, also, by the Brazilian Communist Party,
especially against the nacent CUT Lula himself organized to break the
stranglehold (as written into law) of the CGT (laws that were in place even
under the Dictatorship).

The CUT is divided and fracturing under Lula' assault on its former hegemony
over the working class, while he attempts, via the new "Labor Forum" of Brazil
to NGOidze the unions away from the CUT s(and, I might add, the PT!) historic
program for socialism and class struggle. So yes, he has support among the CUT,
too, partly for our old friend, "lesser evilism", but also because a wing of the
CUT is *bought off* by the gov't and bosses.

If you were in Brazil, Walter, you'd have a hard time standing on both sides of
the fence. I'd like to think you'd stand with the working class against the
bosses. I know you would. But, I also know that you'd end up having to stand
against Lula too if you were being consistant.

David



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