A Warning to the Radical Left
In a typically brilliant work of conjectural analysis published in Brasil de Fato, Valério Arcary, the legendary Marxist historian who broke from the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores/PT) in 1994, warns Brazilian radicals from repeating errors of the past, which transformed some of them into useful idiots for regime change during the long coup years of 2013-2018:
Unfortunately, a segment of the radical militant left does not agree that we need to buy time, much less that we need Lula.