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If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Edit: you posted dozens of ideological battle comments in this thread. That's not cool, and we ban accounts that do it. Please avoid such flamewars in the future, regardless of how strongly you feel or how wrong others are or you feel they are.
That's literally the ideology of every social democratic party in Europe (and most center right as well). They are not communists, and neither is Lula.
Relativization of private property: you own land, someone invades your land and settles on it and you're forced to "mediate" with the invaders before being afforded access to the justice system.
Regulation of all media and communications, censorship in case of "abuse" and even a government ranking of media channels based on how much they conform to "human rights".
Prohibition of religious symbols in public.
Taxation of fortunes because entrepreneurship in Brazil apparently wasn't difficult enough.
Do european political parties really push shit like this?
> There are videos of Lula saying his plan is to literally implement socialism in Brazil
You know those are not the same thing right?
Since these communists are allowed to walk the soil of my country unimpeded and not only hold political office but have literal organized undeniably communist political parties with communism in the name like the Communist Party of Brazil, I have no ideological objection to extending the same freedoms to literal nazis and fascists either. They're all the same to me, I don't see any reason to prefer one over the other.
Doesn't bother me either way, but if you consider yourself a smart or informed person then you're doing yourself a disservice by not actually understanding any of this.
I believe socialism inevitably leads to oppressive totalitarian states. Simply because nobody wants to work for no reward. People must be forced into such slavery and that's inevitably what happens. It's what's happened every time it was tried. Because the alternative is starvation.
The only way that could possibly work is if nobody had to work. That's only possible if there's abundance instead of scarcity. If there's no scarcity, then there is no need to economize. In other words, real socialism is actually a fully automated economy-less post-scarcity society.
Brazil is so ridiculously far from that ideal that it's comical to even suggest implanting socialism here. Comical. The damage caused by that idea is worse than literal nazis roaming free. These people have infiltrated every school, every university.
Oh no! People should _not_ have what they need to survive. Anything but that! I mean, won't somebody think of the investors?