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From: Lüko Willmsvia Marxism
The strange phenomenon of a neoliberal EU/ECB/IMF troika's
proposition
to tax the shipowners
makes me think of the Belgian bourgeois (liberal) politician Guy
Verhoofstadt haranguing Alexis Tsipras in the European Parliament to
"end the privileges of the ship owners, the privileges of the
military, and the privileges of the orthodox church" (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P84tN0z4jqM )
Whatever Verhoofstadt's motives may have been, he was *completely*
correct on that and the Syriza leadership *completely* wrong to not have
moved very rapidly against these 3 reactionary institutions, and even
more so if it resisted an EU/ECB/IMF proposal tax the ship-owners - if
that was resistance from a 'national' angle, then it was a good example
of when class should have trumped national.
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