The crisis of the Brazilian left.

The saying goes that the left only unites in prison. Perhaps nowadays, not even in prison is there unity, due to its gradual loss of characteristics that distinguish it from the right, and its historical causes.

Sick with pragmatism, which is a philosophical thought created at the end of the 19th century by the American Charles Sanders Peirce, with the help of the psychologist William James and the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who conjecture practical value as a criterion of truth.

By abandoning the pursuit of a more just state, the Brazilian left throws utopia and its own historical significance to the wind, tearing up biographies in latrines.

Not only was there a coup orchestrated by the media monopoly, led by Rede Globo, a partisan judiciary aligned with conservative, elitist, and prejudiced views, and parties representing social anachronism, but the left is now kneeling before the new order established by the executioners of democracy.

The elections that re-elected Rodrigo Maia to preside over the Chamber of Federal Deputies are a slap in the face to activists, sympathizers, and dreamers of progressive ideals.

A genuine option from the progressive camp, the "opposition" candidate, André Figueiredo, from the PDT (CE), possessed and still possesses all the prerogatives of a reliable leader of the left. His long history qualified him, and continues to qualify him, for this task as well as others.

However, breaking one's word through treacherous acts and disloyalty reveals to Brazilian public opinion the exact extent of the serious crisis facing the left.

Adding together the so-called "left-wing" blocs: PDT with 21 deputies, PT with 57 deputies, and Rede with 4, the total is 82 deputies. This includes the unfortunate exception of PCdoB, with 12 deputies, which shamelessly chose to support the right-wing candidate, one of the leaders of the coup that ousted President Dilma Rousseff, Deputy Rodrigo Maia, of DEM.

A gloomy moment of de-ideology, of abandoning principles, of losing identity, and of unworthy pragmatism. After all, if there's not enough to eat, here's my first bite.

Reflecting on the crisis of the left and verifying that between discourse and practice there is a dense abyss, the game of power takes precedence over supposedly coherent stances, in addition to a complete renunciation of the great causes of our people, today summarized in employment and development.

We content ourselves with merely addressing the needs of minorities, but we abdicate from greater national politics.

It is urgent and imperative to build a national project, defend our heritage, and affirm our sovereignty.

The pragmatic myopia, the downplaying of the reprimands in the face of the election for president of the Chamber of Deputies, will unconditionally serve to accelerate the dismantling of the National State, and to deepen the neoliberal measures planned by the illegitimate government we have; which has a compulsion to take away labor and social security rights from our people.

This is the practical result of making impassioned speeches in public and kneeling in private, a true betrayal of the Brazilian people.