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Might Plan B be the gradual re-introduction of the drachma as an alternative to the Euro? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > On 2/23/15 10:01 AM, TARIQ ALI wrote: > >> Everything today, alas, is in a capitalist context. Choice is between >> neo-liberalism and a form of left social-democracy (Bolivarians, Syriza, >> Podemos). There is no systemic challenge. Read Wolfgang Munchau in >> today's FT who says in polite language how the Germans won....As for a >> Plan B, Stathis Kouvelakis, member of Syriza CC will have an important >> text out today and download Costas Lapavitsas book from Verso website.... >> > > Actually, I downloaded Lapavitsas's book already from Amazon. (Btw, I > tried originally to download it directly from Verso since Amazon is the > anti-Christ but it failed on my Macbook.) > > I will be writing something today on this TINA question since our good > friend Richard Seymour wrote them on my forehead with a magic marker. TINA > is an *ideology* made popular (after a fashion) by Margaret Thatcher. But > this is not the same thing as leftists trying to run a government in a > capitalist world. In the late 80s, Tecnica worked closely with Paul Oquist, > Nicaragua's Yanis Varoufakis. He had no solution to the government's > increasing inability to provide the people with necessities under > conditions of economic isolation and unending war, exacerbated by the > USSR's disappearance as a "degenerated workers state". This is not "TINA". > It is the hard facts of weak nations trying to move forward in a hostile > environment. > > And, god, what I wouldn't give for some of that degeneration today. > > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/sranz18% > 40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
