At 11:25 AM 10/6/2006, you wrote:
Brazil: What Is at Stake in the Second Round by Emir Sader <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/sader061006.html>
There is absolutely nothing of substance in Sader's article. It is basically election campaign propaganda akin to vote for Kerry or else the planet Earth will plunge into the Sun. I strongly recommend "Brazil's Presidential Election: Background on Economic Issues" by Mark Weisbrot and Luis Sandoval at: http://www.cepr.net/publications/Brazil_2006_09_22.pdf. It makes an air-tight case that economic suffering in Brazil is a direct result of the deficit-hawk policies of Lula's government, which were adopted in order to placate Brazilian banks. Now of course one can certainly defend Lula in the same way that some defend Thabo Mbeki by saying that without such measures Brazil could not get investment funds, etc. There is a term to describe this logic: TINA. I have to admit that I am not surprised by Yoshie's new-found admiration for Lula. It goes hand in hand with propagandizing for another anti-working class government. Disgusting. -- www.marxmail.org
