Title: Socialism is alive and kicking in South America | Sounds and Colours
Headings: Socialism is alive and kicking in South America
Socialism is alive and kicking in South America
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Content: It is argued that totalitarian regimes where certain goods are scarce may be more bearable in benign climatic conditions, rather than in places like Russia where poverty takes a death toll every winter. On the other hand its position in the political map of the world situate all these countries right below the United States, and these regimes might also be a way of confronting severe capitalist policies that affect them first hand. Some of these governments, see the case of Cuba, were born in conditions directly provoked by the United States, which have appointed a few leaders for South American countries throughout the 20th century, starting armed conflicts in order to install or maintain friendly governments to their administrations in the continent. The most obvious of the reasons, which emerges straight from the situation created by the intrusion of the States, is the South American population’s wish to manage their own natural and economic resources and to make the profits obtained be to their own benefit. However, the main problem that currently derives from socialism in South America is that some of the doctrine’s principles seem to have inevitably gone out of date. In a world where money is key and progress is every day more associated with material goods rather than spiritual satisfaction, the communist, Marxist or socialist discourse that might have worked a few decades ago is now questioned by the vast majority of people, inside and outside those countries. Balance could be the piece needed in most of the South American nations. Balance between the pressure of the capitalist countries and the national management of the land’s resources. This could be achieved as in Brazil’s case, with socialist policies for the benefit of the underprivileged and the working class, as well as a leader like Lula, who has sought cooperation with other world leaders and nations. He is probably the least controversial of all of them and the one who has collected more praise amongst his American and European counterparts, but obviously, some would argue that every country is different and soft policies to keep the developed countries pleased is not enough.