brazil (my country too, eae paizao) has been a colony for most of it’s history since the portuguese came here. first to the europeans to have our gold and natural resources, then for the US to have our consumer market and natural resources for very cheap, so they can feed their industries and markets.
a lot of the economic policy we are applying RIGHT NOW (such as the teto de gastos implemented since michel temer) are IMF impositions, which is controlled by the US.
this is essentially what makes us deindustrialized and dependent on foreign goods, and is making our public services so bad, which is the whole point of making us a colony in neoliberal capitalism. so they can come in to the “open” market and dominate everything unfairly.
we (the global south) are also doing most of the work to make western companies and their profits possible:
my last sources of employment put me to work 6 days a week (no famoso 6 por 1, disfarçado) earning a comparatively low salary to enrich us and european multinationals.
bolsonaro was literally sponsored by the CIA and planned by steve bannon to align us with the US and try to put us in line. remember how he “patriotically” simped so hard for the US throughout his term?
lula’s admin is not much different in practice by the way. just ideologically more aligned with neoliberal capitalists than fascists. the best we can hope from him in terms of materially improving our lives right now is putting us closer to BRICS.
our country doesn’t suck because brazilians suck, as a lot of reactionary right wing brazilians like to say. it sucks because of us imperialism.
Not disagreeing with you any bit, but I want to clarify that by “Brazil being imperialistic” I meant how we expanded our territory during the 1800s and our “most recent war” at Paraguay around late 1800
I don’t disagree with you that we were and are exploited, but we surely expanded our territory by a lot of land-grabbing in those wars (even tho I recognize these were old times).
In that specific sense that I meant we once were imperialistic (Sem falar que Dom Pedro era imperador né?! hahahaha!)
ha, that time was a bit weird. we were not under the portuguese crown anymore, but they just let their son to keep the country to play with after they were done 😂
though that was a different kind of national empire, not a world-spanning empire the west has built.
brazil (my country too, eae paizao) has been a colony for most of it’s history since the portuguese came here. first to the europeans to have our gold and natural resources, then for the US to have our consumer market and natural resources for very cheap, so they can feed their industries and markets.
a lot of the economic policy we are applying RIGHT NOW (such as the teto de gastos implemented since michel temer) are IMF impositions, which is controlled by the US.
this is essentially what makes us deindustrialized and dependent on foreign goods, and is making our public services so bad, which is the whole point of making us a colony in neoliberal capitalism. so they can come in to the “open” market and dominate everything unfairly.
we (the global south) are also doing most of the work to make western companies and their profits possible:
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my last sources of employment put me to work 6 days a week (no famoso 6 por 1, disfarçado) earning a comparatively low salary to enrich us and european multinationals.
bolsonaro was literally sponsored by the CIA and planned by steve bannon to align us with the US and try to put us in line. remember how he “patriotically” simped so hard for the US throughout his term?
lula’s admin is not much different in practice by the way. just ideologically more aligned with neoliberal capitalists than fascists. the best we can hope from him in terms of materially improving our lives right now is putting us closer to BRICS.
our country doesn’t suck because brazilians suck, as a lot of reactionary right wing brazilians like to say. it sucks because of us imperialism.
Not disagreeing with you any bit, but I want to clarify that by “Brazil being imperialistic” I meant how we expanded our territory during the 1800s and our “most recent war” at Paraguay around late 1800
(btw, I had to search the date and found that our last “recent” territorial war was probably the Acre war (1899), a few years after Paraguay war – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Brazil )
I don’t disagree with you that we were and are exploited, but we surely expanded our territory by a lot of land-grabbing in those wars (even tho I recognize these were old times).
In that specific sense that I meant we once were imperialistic (Sem falar que Dom Pedro era imperador né?! hahahaha!)
ha, that time was a bit weird. we were not under the portuguese crown anymore, but they just let their son to keep the country to play with after they were done 😂
though that was a different kind of national empire, not a world-spanning empire the west has built.