That’s the best case scenario - that they are actually genuinely trying to create and run on the socialist road, like Allende, Chavez and Ortega (arguably mid way, in 1999 and 2006), etc. even if through the electoral way
The worst case scenario is that they end up, like Frederich Ebert, Fabian Society people, AOC, as bourgeois-captured social democrats, who, with their political image, obscure the fact that they co-opt and rubber-stamp the repression of genuine revolutionary movements and grease the imperialist-backed monopoly capitalist economy to keep going on
Defense Minister José Múcio Monteiro stated that Brazil would not be able to mount a military defense against the United States in the event of an invasion, and joked about the possibility by saying he would “open the gate.”
Múcio should have been fired Feb 2023 (1 month into the curent mandate), he’s still there. He is a clear representative of the most reactionary wings of the military
That’s the best case scenario - that they are actually genuinely trying to create and run on the socialist road, like Allende, Chavez and Ortega (arguably mid way, in 1999 and 2006), etc. even if through the electoral way
The worst case scenario is that they end up, like Frederich Ebert, Fabian Society people, AOC, as bourgeois-captured social democrats, who, with their political image, obscure the fact that they co-opt and rubber-stamp the repression of genuine revolutionary movements and grease the imperialist-backed monopoly capitalist economy to keep going on
Democratic Socialists can have genuinely good intent, the problem is intent doesn’t matter when you’re staring down the end of a barrel.
(feel free to quote me on this)
Do democratic socialism but also have guns like Chavez. Even Evo and Lula have figured this out by now.
Lula definetly hasn’t figured that out, I wish.
https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2026/08/04/abrir-o-portao-brinca-mucio-sobre-possivel-invasao-dos-eua-nao-tem-equipamento-para-enfrenta-los.ghtml
Múcio should have been fired Feb 2023 (1 month into the curent mandate), he’s still there. He is a clear representative of the most reactionary wings of the military
Political power grows out of a barrel of a gun.
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