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Proyect wrote;
So what kind of party do we need? One that proclaims the need for rupture?
Such a party exists. Actually two of them exist: KKE and Antarsya. But the
support for them is negligible. The fact that only 5 percent of those
voting "no" in the referendum expected that if such a vote it would lead to
a Grexit, either bourgeois or proletarian, is something that the left has
to grapple with. Indeed, the highest preference according to party lines
for leaving the eurozone is from ANEL and Golden Dawn. Only 5 percent of
Syriza voters expressed a desire to leave the eurozone. Maybe the Greeks
should consider Brecht's advice: the government should dissolve the people
and elect another.
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Maybe a party that can, at minimum, decide on a rational course of action
and campaign for it rather than merely reflect the immediate wishes of the
electorate, especially when those wishes--to reject austerity and remain
within the Eurozone--are mutually incompatible. Eurozone, thy name is
austerity! It would have helped a lot had the Syriza leadership been clear
on this from the beginning, and not sown illusions about persuading the
Eurocrats to become something other than what they fundamentally and
irreducibly are.
And maybe only 5% of No voters favored leaving the euro, but ALL of them
voted against the austerity package that the Syriza leadership is now in
the process of ramming down their throats. It is unclear how the majority
would have decided if an either/or choice had been clearly put to them,
although they overwhelmingly voted No despite threats from the
"institutions" and the Greek media that their choice would amount
to leaving. The Syriza leadership is now undemocratically imposing upon the
people a course that they have shown themselves to oppose even more than a
Grexit.
What kind of party does Greece need? Surely NOT the kind of party that
Syriza has shown itself to be. Seymour is right. Syriza is now nothing more
than a PASOK Mark 2. It is dead! And the future of Podemos is not bright.
The best thing that can come from this debacle is the formation of a new
party from the leftwing members that will perhaps split from Syriza,
and other leftist parties or members of them who do not share Tsipras's
view that an indefinite future of poverty and national humiliation are
preferable to the trials of life outside the Euro
Jim
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