Στις 8/9/20 7:12 μ.μ., ο mkaradjis . έγραψε:
There is probably some underestimation of Turkey’s own aggressiveness in
the OKDE statement, even if there is some “justification” from a
“national” point of view as you explain well (and with Erdogan’s current
ally Bahceli from the fascist MHP making “war” noises all the more
dangerous).
Michael
Thank you for your comment. The statement of OKDE(Spartakos) is not an
analysis; it is rather a part of the discussion inside ANTARSYA and the
broader Greek left on how to respond to nationalism and warmongering.
We have indeed bent the stick towards the Greek aggressive policy. This
is because everybody else in the Greek left condemns the Turkish
aggressive attitude and the cowardice of the traitorous Greek bourgeois
government who is about to cede Greek sovereign rights to the enemy!
Unfortunately, the whole intraleft dialogue in Greece is trapped on the
question of who is the aggressor, as if a, by definition, aggressive
bourgeois government would cease to be aggressive whenever it is forced
to a defensive stance. Turkish aggressiveness is real but it is always
up to the Turkish working class to deal with it. As for the Greek
working class, denouncing the Turkish aggressiveness (without any
objective possibility to fight it) and therefore objectively siding with
its own bourgeoisie against the Turkish working class, is clearly not an
option.
The right-wing Greek government has played the card of ultranationalist
narrative to cement the national unity around an impossible claim,
namely that Turkey must be excluded from east Mediterranean sea. The map
circulated by Greece is telling
https://www.onalert.gr/ellinotourkika/O_kathorismos_ths_ellhnikhs_AOZ_kai_o_asfairos_toyrkikos_mpampoylas/90725/
The situation in Greece is much the same as the so called "macedonian
issue" and the Prespa agreement. Back then New Democracy was
championing the ultranationalist narrative against the Macedonian people
both in Macedonian Republic and Greece. But then it was SYRIZA willing
to be the scapegoat that striked the Prespa agreement, which the Greek
bourgeoisie wanted and with which its main party, New Democracy,
eventually accommodated. But now there is no SYRIZA to take on the sin!
And obviously Turkey must take its share from this natural gas Eldorado.
Two other statements not nationalist but still not good enough as they
stand in equal distance from Greece and Turkey, can be found at
http://eek.gr/index.php/announcements/6519-joint-statement-by-the-dip-of-turkey-and-the-eek-of-greece
and
https://www.emep.org/tr/sermaye-ve-emperyalizmin-planlarini-yenilgiye-ugratarak-bolgede-baris-istiyoruz-mucadelemiz-iscilerin-ve-halklarin-cikarlari-ve-sosyal-kurtuluslari-icindir/
in solidarity
JA
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