Gar, Tsipras and Varoufakis conceive and treat the problem as one of negotiation between the Greek government and the Euro authorities. Only a week ago, after four months pursuing this mirage, did Syriza call a protest demonstration in Greece.
The spat over hotel rooms that I quoted from the press is a tiny flashlight on this point. As your reductio ad absurdam brings out, social democrats buy into the framework that everyone can be happy under capitalism. And now a referendum. "The [Syriza-ANEL] government says that the proposal of the lenders is outside the people's mandate. Is its own [cutbacks] proposal _inside_ the boundaries of the people's mandate? The government told lies to the Greek people. It promised them [e.g., Syriza's Thessalonica platform] that they could be freed from the memoranda and austerity inside the EU and the capitalist development path and now it is trying to manage the collapse of this pre-election narrative." http://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/KKE-NO-to-the-continuing-bankruptcy-of-the-people/ - - - On Jun 15, 2015, Charlie wrote: > Sometime little details speak more than official generalities. (Greek Reporter, Jun 15, 2015) Creditors criticized the fact that the 11-member Greek negotiating team had breakfast at the expensive Sablon area and stayed at the equally expensive, luxurious The Hotel in the same area. They said that it was too extravagant for a team to fly with a state airplane and go through all these expenses for a 45-minute meeting that led nowhere. http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/06/15/creditors-angered-by-greeces-infeasible-vague-proposals/ < On Jun 28, 2015, Gar replied: > Well it certainly does reveal how petty the creditors are. Syriza agreed to cut its own throat. The creditors turned down that agreement on grounds that the razor had the wrong logo. Perhaps if the Greek negotiating team had traveled in rowboats, slept in tents and scavenged meals out of garbage cans that touching show of humility would have resulted in the creditors taking "yes" for an answer < _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
