On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Certainly. Fascist and conservative parties have had popular support, as > you point out. But the widespread support for Syriza, a left-wing party, is > progressive, and the demand of the majority of Greeks to scrap the > unsustainable debt and austerity memoranda imposed on the country is also > progressive - even if there is a lot of confusion and division about how to > accomplish this. I don’t agree that, in pursuing this eminently rational > goal, most Greeks are mainly motivated by “pathetic nationalistic pride”. > The pathetic nationalistic part is about the desire (which by all accounts is very real) to stay in the Euro at all costs - not the anti-austerity part. The latter, I agree, is entirely rational and progressive. -raghu.
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