On 10/6/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
An election campaign is certainly going on, in which the choice is
_now, in the runoff,_ between only two candidates: Lula and Alckmin*.
That's an easy choice for me, but, given Lula's records, it will
probably be a close race, what with all the corruption scandals and
economic policies that have disappointed leftists.
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.
I don't admire Lula, and he doesn't interest me unlike Chavez and
Ahmadinejad, but it will be one fewer vote for Venezuela in a lot of
international affairs if Alckmin gets elected, so I'll put in my two
cents in the runoff.
But maybe in your opinion it makes no difference whether it will be
Lula or Alckmin.
* At least, that's a better choice than one in Thailand, where the
choice, as it turned out to be, was Thakusin or a royal-military coup,
though I didn't realize that until the coup happened.
--
Yoshie
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