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No need for "implications" about that - it is well-known by all casual
observers that the KKE refused - has refused in advance for months, or
years - to form a coalition with Syriza, just as it refused to do so
after the 2012 elections, both times betraying the massive left vote on
the altar of a sectarian-right-nationalist stance of "out of EU Now or
Nothing!" Comrades should be clear to not mistake this for a
fundamentally left critique of Syriza, however it may be phrased.
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From: Sheldon Ranz via Marxism
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 3:08 AM
To: Michael Karadjis
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Tsipras: the reverse shock doctrine | Paul
Mason | Paul Mason
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According to this article, the KKE refused the join the new governing
coalition. Mason implies it was asked by Tzipras. So, while I was
technically in error about the KKE supporting austerity, criticism of
Syriza on this matter may be a moot point.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
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The astonishment in Europe cannot be expained by lack of
foreknowledge.
Numerous journalists who cover Greece, including me, reported in
detail
what Syriza planned to do: cancel the austerty and privatisations, run
a
balanced budget and massively hike the tax take from the so-called
oligarchs and the black economy.
The astonishment comes because all the political centre’s contingency
plans come apart. The centre-right did not win, the centre-left
parties
formed to create a moderation mechanism on Syriza in coalition did not
get
asked into the government (and in the case of Papandreou’s party, To
Kinima, failed to get into parliament).
By tying up an immediate coalition with a far-right nationalist party,
Tsipras was able to seize the apparatus of the Greek executive faster
than
anybody expected. That is what drove yesterday’s collapse of Greek
bank
shares, and the fall on the stock exchange.
full: http://blogs.channel4.com/paul-mason-blog/tsipras-
reverse-shock-doctrine/3155
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