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Dramaniela retweeted
Lástima que acá tengamos un poco de pusilánimes con miedo a perder la visa gringa y los privilegios de la clase alta.
Si vamos a ser honestos Lula en sus discursos tampoco habla de industrialización. Habla de la clase trabajadora y de sus necesidades diarias. A ustedes simplemente les encanta pensar que Colombia tiene la peor izquierda del mundo pa justificar que son incapaces de luchar por nada
Dramaniela retweeted
Ontem, após a vitória de Lula, a manchete já anunciava: “Petista enfrentará um Congresso de forte oposição e a pressão pelo equilíbrio das contas públicas.”
Hoje, a instabilidade na Bolsa recolocou em cena o poder do chamado “mercado”. O dia foi instável, a aposta era a vitória de Flávio, foi necessário ajustar expectativas.
Entretanto, não podemos esquecer que essa mão invisível tem nome, endereço e conta bancária.
Por trás da abstração dos “investidores”, há grandes grupos econômicos com interesses concretos e enorme capacidade de pressionar os rumos do país.
A disputa pelo futuro do Brasil não será travada apenas no Congresso Nacional. Também passará pelo enfrentamento das pressões do capital financeiro sobre a política econômica.
Mas como enfrentar um poder concreto que se apresenta como abstração?
O primeiro passo é retirar sua máscara de neutralidade. O mercado não é uma entidade acima da sociedade. É formado por agentes econômicos com interesses, poder e capacidade de influenciar decisões políticas.
E aquilo que é resultado de relações de poder não pode ser tratado como uma lei da natureza.
Nunca me van a convencer de que no es “suficientemente revolucionario” cambiar las condiciones materiales de la gente en un sistema de mierda como el actual diseñado para hacer fracasar cualquier intento de independencia económica. Nunca!
Dramaniela retweeted
1/11 The FT prescribes austerity for Lula to reassure markets. But financial confidence is not synonymous with development. Who decides what counts as “responsible” economic policy? Brazil has a mature intellectual tradition ready to challenge that premise. 🧵🇧🇷
The entire Financial Times editorial board has published a piece urging Lula to cut government spending and appoint a finance minister who enjoys the confidence of investors.
I get the impression that the FT editorial board has never opened an economics book other than some outdated introductory macroeconomics textbook, perhaps something by Mankiw. Otherwise, it's hard to explain such astonishing arrogance and economic ignorance.
Lula and the Brazilian people have absolutely no reason to bow to the demands of financial markets. Brazil is Latin America's largest economy, a major regional power, and a country with a high degree of monetary sovereignty. Around 97% of the central government's debt is denominated in its own currency, the Brazilian real.
The relationship between the state and financial markets is therefore nothing like the FT portrays it. Brazil is not dependent on financial markets. On the contrary, financial markets depend on government spending, which creates financial assets for the private sector, while government debt denominated in the national currency is one of the instruments through which those assets are held.
What Brazil needs is not capitulation to financial markets, but an independent economic policy focused on expanding production, creating jobs, and improving people's living standards.
Armed with the insights of heterodox economic theory, Brazil has the potential to show the world what a genuine economic miracle looks like. ft.com/content/79785581-88c2…
Dramaniela retweeted
🇧🇷 | URGENTE: La Corte Suprema de Brasil ordena una investigación sobre presunto financiamiento extranjero a Flávio Bolsonaro y la manipulación de algoritmos de redes sociales durante las elecciones.
Dramaniela retweeted
It blows my mind how economists keep coming up with the same stupid solutions: cut government spending, slash taxes for the rich, raise taxes on the poor, scrap welfare benefits, deregulate financial markets, get rid of basically everything…
And then, time and time again, they act surprised when the result is chaos, unemployment, poverty, depression…
MMT tells you a monetarily sovereign nation can issue all the currency/debt it wants and nothing will happen, claiming that currency and market volatility can easily be eliminated by cancelling the capital account.
This nonsense can only be promoted by someone that does not understand that the currency collapse and creditworthiness slump are driven by domestic citizens and savers rejecting the local currency; it is not an evil conspiracy of foreign investors.
Furthermore, no nation is monetarily sovereign. It always depends on demand. Try to force use or restrict flow, and the currency is worth nothing.
And local citizens are the first to reject an increasingly worthless currency issued by an irresponsible government.
You are welcome
Dramaniela retweeted
The message is clear:
Even if you win the votes, our institutions -from believing in "bond vigilantes" to the IMF - won't let you succeed
En todos los análisis se les está olvidando una razón fundamental por la que el triunfo de Lula es extremadamente importante hoy: en 2024 Lula trabajó con el economista experto en impuestos @gabriel_zucman para proponer impuestos a los billonarios en la agenda del G20
Dramaniela retweeted
En Brasil están intentando concienciar a la gente de algo fundamental para entender la victoria de Lula: no interactuar absolutamente con nada de la derecha. Ni siquiera para criticarla. Cada interacción les da visibilidad. Ni difusión, ni respuestas, ni citas. Interacción cero.
Dramaniela retweeted
¿Saben que no tiene Brasil?
A un montón de gente que amenaza con darle el voto al fascismo si la izquierda les parece “demasiado radical”.
Datos.
