The presumed lulismo crisis: a discourse entering into a crisis

From birth, lulismo has been diagnosed with crisis and even in its terminal stage. Once the first Labor Party (PT) government began, it was indicated that it would fail. This continued even after their successful governments. However, he was elected to four terms. This wave is not over yet.

In 2018 a book by an alternate political scientist entitled lulismo is in crisisshortly before Lula was re-elected President of Brazil. At that very moment, a weighty columnist declared: “Lola’s last chance.”

In short, the path of Lula and the PT has always been accompanied by disastrous predictions. In his first elections, Lula was twice defeated by Fernando Henrique Cardoso in presidential contests, in the first round. Lula was seen as a failed politician, and the PT was a party unable to defeat the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB).

Labor is supposed to appear as if it is always in crisis, piling up defeats. As if his project was not feasible. It seems that lulismo was born to “live in crisis”. The idea is always to criticize Lula, call him bad, and not trust his words. A journalist who writes these things will certainly get space in the media, be invited to debates, be invited to write, and promoted to “specialist” on Lula and PT.

However, in Brazilian political history, there is no such great success as that of Lula and the Workers’ Party. There is not even a comparison to Getulio Vargas and Getulismo that would make it possible to find such a huge success.

It is necessary to remember that Lula faced the country at that time with a serious economic recession, soaring inflation and high unemployment rates. Lula left the government, after serving two terms, in the face of systematic opposition from the media, but with the support of 76 percent.

The economy has grown again, social and regional inequalities are worsening, and so is unemployment. So much so that Lula chose Dilma as his successor, who in turn managed to get re-elected.

For 14 years, Brazil has experienced an unprecedented cycle of economic growth, reduction of inequalities, political stability and international standing. Lulismo spearheaded this process, establishing itself as the country’s largest political force in the 21st century, which would have endured had it not been for the coup against Dilma.

After his arrest, conviction and imprisonment, Lula was re-elected president, although he received an important legacy for the rule of Brazil: the institutional disaster produced by the previous government, in addition to the climate of violence in the right-wing discourses, accompanied by the president of the neoliberal central bank and the Chamber of Deputies with a conservative majority.

Lula is an enigma, which is not deciphered neither by the right nor by the extreme left, who end up devouring this enigma. Lula was able to see that neoliberalism is the enemy of defeat and defeat. The success of his government is due to his ability to replace the priority of fiscal adjustments with the priority of social policies, increasing official jobs, and expanding education, health and social assistance policies. and complementary policies, such as Bolsa Família, Minha Casa, and Minha Vida, among others, for those not on the formal market.

In general, the Lula governments, which face the media as a major opponent, are also accompanied by those who insist on the issue of the Lulismo crisis. “Crisis” has already entered a crisis.

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