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This is a passage from Kouvelakis' interview:
"So it’s quite clear that for certain sectors very involved in
mobilizations and social movements, at a local level or at the level of
the union, they tend to support or regroup around initiatives or
structures in which far-left activists are led." [you may call it
ANTARSYA] "But, when it comes to political representation, then Syriza
acts in a way as the key political representation for this overall
constellation of forces."
Regardless Kouvelakis' or any other interpretation of that fact, one can
hardly find anything unusual, leave alone astonishing, in the mass'
electoral behavior. For the isolated in the ballot box curtain "citizen"
is a different person than the same man or woman in the class struggle.
The bourgeois elections are surely not in a direct correspondence
neither to the class struggle nor to the class conscientiousness. After
all, even the Bolsheviks, days after the abolition of the capitalist
state, found themselves defeated in the Constituent Assembly elections.
And it is quite amusing to see that Kouvelakis' very same argument
could be, as a bitter joke, fitted in that case:
"So it’s quite clear that for certain sectors very involved in the
mobilizations and the social movements, that overthrew the Char and have
abolished the bourgeois state, they tend to support or regroup around
initiatives or structures in which Bolsheviks are led. But, when it
comes to political representation like the Constituent Assembly , then
the SR party acts in a way as the key political representation for this
overall constellation of forces."
JA
On 22/01/2015 09:49 μμ, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
With Syriza approaching the gates of power in Greece, the internet has
been full of analyses, opinion pieces, and endorsements and
denunciations. In this interview with Stathis Kouvelakis, edited for
clarity, conducted in early January, and spliced together with earlier
interviews (thanks to David Broder for translations), we take a critical
distance to understand the origins, trajectory, and possible challenges
of this political formation.
full: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/phase-one/
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