Open letter to the Brazilian middle class (Capitalism versus Financial Speculation)

What we need to make you, ordinary middle-class citizens, understand is that you are not big capitalists; on the contrary, you are merely primary consumers of peripheral capitalism.

What you need to understand is that the "right-wing parties" are now dominated by large foreign corporations that live off financial speculation.

These companies have nothing to do with you.

The middle class will never benefit from these corporations, nor will they be invited to receive the profits from their businesses or to their parties.

Large corporations aren't interested in sharing anything with you; you're orphans. They have no interest in domestic well-being, national industry, or domestic trade, which is where you sell...

They make a living off the big deals perpetuated by foreign monopolies and financial speculation.

In these financial lobbies, you're not even welcome as coffee servers. These foreign corporations have dealings with the local high oligarchy, and you won't be invited to those meetings.

Those who own a business in a shopping mall, as well as professionals like lawyers or dentists, do not belong, nor will they ever belong, to that world of tax havens and financial speculation.

The role of the middle class is sad, decadent, and melancholic. It is the first to become impoverished when right-wing governments are installed.

You enable these corporate parties to come to power by being functional, repeating phrases they hear from the mainstream media and imitating them. They fill their heads with words like populism, Venezuela, and all sorts of prejudice. For them, it's a way to conceal their political agenda.

You are not part of the ruling class. Financial speculation needs to pay its own interest, taking a portion of your wealth.

At the financial speculators' parties, you are the chickens on the table, the cake at the party. You are there to be eaten, not to eat.

You are merely primary consumers, and the prices of electricity, gas, pensions, fuel... are the first things that large corporations raise.

When governments involved in major privatizations come to power, it is from you that they obtain the money to pay for their huge profits and financial interests.

But if you've run out of intelligence, appeal to your good memory. How was your business, your work, during Lula's populist era? How are you doing now with this Temer oligarchy?

What oil negotiations were they invited to? Or did they only see fuel prices rising at the pumps?