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As an economist, apart of a leader to the peasants, could you explain how much the current economic crisis weighed in the current political crisis of Brazil?
The economic crisis is the reason why the class conciliation ceased to be possible, because when Lula was President, he designed a conciliation that was based on three pillars: firstly, to make the economy grow through industry (which he accomplished), secondly, to recover the role of the state of making productive investments such as education and health, to better the living conditions of the population and thirdly, to distribute the income through an increase in the minimum wage. What happened? With the international crisis of capitalism the economy of Brazil, as a country in the periphery of capitalism, suffered greatly, and for three years the economy hasn’t grown.
Twenty years ago industry represented 50 percent of our GNP and now, due to deindustrialization and the arrival of Chinese and US companies, national industry is only 9 percent of the GFP, and there’s a deep economic crisis that can only be solved by recovering, again, the role of the state, controlling financial capital so that instead of accumulating wealth through speculation, the state can use that money to make productive investments in the industry and agriculture, oriented towards the internal market. With that, the economy would grow again, and we’d have a new role for the workforce (because nowadays we have an unemployment rate of 10 percent) and we could have social programs again.
The political crisis we’re going through is a consequence of the elites trying to get back the state and restore neoliberalism, but the working class isn’t going to accept that. It’s going to take years to get out of this, because the only way out of a crisis of this magnitude is through an agreement between social classes —not just parties— over a new model of the country, that can be hegemonic in most of society.
And now, in this moment, there’s no project being discussed in the country, not even within any of the classes —neither the bourgeoisie nor the petite bourgeoisie, nor the working class have a clear project for the country, and that’s why we’re in this confusion and why the bourgeoisie is stupid enough —because they’re subordinated to the interests of imperialism— to think it’s enough to change the President of the Republic to magically solve the problems of the economy, but that’s not true. On the contrary, that would deepen the contradictions of inequality, deepen the institutional crisis and, hopefully, send the masses back on the streets so that they, with their political force, debate a new project for the country.
full: http://www.thedawn-news.org/2016/04/26/interview-with-joao-pedro-stedile-dilmas-mistake-was-to-promote-class-conciliation/
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