RES: [lbo-talk] Lula's party purges leftists in Brazil

[Brad DeLong]

>Sympathy and courage to you, Alexandre.
>
>A couple of days ago I caught this ancient Canadian television show, "Take
>30" (from the late 60s/early 70s judging by the host's tie and the guest's
>face).  The guest was Germain Greer.  When she was asked about the
>possibility of meaningful/radical social change she said that faith and
>steadfastness were key.
>
>Don't let the fuckers grind you down, dude.
>
>Todd
>
>
>-Thank you, but it´s sad to see we are impotent to resist the market
>fundamentalism onslaught even if the people is tired of it (a recent
>poll in many LA countries showed that only 20% of people were satisfied
>with the market economy, in "wonderful" Chile this increased to 25%).
>We saw that even small attempts to make some shy reforms (like in
>Venezuela) were fought with massive sabotage (altought Chavez political
>messianism is to be blamed too). The "left" alternative seems to be
>insisting in the same reforms that are devastating our country. So,
>what is to be done??? It´s curious that Lula was a great admirer of
>Jospin, and when he was punished for his policies, he blamed "the
>radicals". Now he is playing the same stupid game....alienating his
>supporters in a desperate attempt to seem reliable to finacial
>capital. Each improvement in the stocks value is hailed as a great
>achievemnt even if the economy won´t grow this year and mean wages
>dropped by 15%!!!! And I voted for those idiots!!
>
>                      Alexandre

Lula da Silva may well fail. But if he gets undercut by the left, the 
chance that he will fail rises to 100%.

Brad DeLong