Re: [Marxism] Brazil s Lula still ahead in Polls

[Carlos Petroni <cepetroni@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis:
It is too bad that when Walter  decided to reject the ultraleft sectarianism of 
the Trotskyist  movement he went full-tilt into a kind of crypto-Stalinism of 
the  sort found in the "Friendship Committees" of the 1960s. At least  those 
committees did their free PR work for postcapitalist societies.  Why you would 
want to serve a one-man fan club for Lula or Thabo  Mbeki, presidents of 
bourgeois governments favoring the rich, is a  mystery to me.

Answer:

The answer to your mistery may very well be on the fact that people got tired 
of being patient and ask for Marxism to be accomplished.  They started to 
bargain with reality and settled for less, and less, and still less...

Many of those who supported acritically the FSLN in the 80s and even the 90s 
are some of those supporting Morales o Chavez today, or even Lula, Kirchner and 
Mbeki who are ostensibly to the right of the Venezuelan or the Bolivian guys.  
Nevermind that today the FSLN is against abortion, proclaims a "born again 
cristianity", declares mutual amnesty for Daniel Ortega (accused by his 
adoptive daugheter of rape) and the then Liberal President of the Liberal Party 
(accused of corruption); is running with a Somozoist as his vice-presidential 
candidate (the same one who got expropriated by the revolution of the house 
where now Ortega lives)... no critical balance-sheet or nothing, just moved to 
the next to support.




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