Reply #7: I understand your point

[ChangoLoa]

I thought you were talking about the whole dependency theory... didn't read carefully enough what you had wrote.

And certainly I don't consider Cardoso to be a leftist. But still, equating him with Friedman and the monetarists (neoliberalism is a disguised term itself) seems to be quite a jump.

I won't pretend Lula maintained his exact economic policies as the Brazilian center and right-wing do. Obviously, the social programs organized by his coalition had a major impact on many aspects.

But let me ask you a question: what major differences of approach in their political economy do you identify?

And finally: do you consider that the only left is the revolutionary one? Is there a reformatory left for you?

"Breaking the cycle of financial and technological dependence": any example of a revolutionary government that has managed to do so?