> I have to think the vast majority of those on this list and what we know > as the international left would have voted against further austerity. > If I thought otherwise, or if i agreed with the troika and discredited > Greek opposition that there was no alternative, and that it was > consequently necessary to turn against the referendum result and > the program on which Syriza took office, I’d no longer see any objective > reason to associate myself with the left.
It's easy to be ideologically pure. And as far as your pluralis majestatis is concerned, please could you tell the insubstantial minority what *you* know as the international left? No austerity or further austerity - these were not the alternatives to decide recently, neither by the Syriza central committee, nor by the Greek parliament, and not by other national parliaments in Europe. I leave the prerogative of not grasping that a Grexit does not mean "no or less austerity" but further destruction of the Greek society to the united global movement of ideologically pure Marixsts. "My question to those critics is: What battles are you fighting in your country, city, town, right now? And at what risk? Are you not, in fact, just as bad as the hardcore austerity ideologues that want to experiment with a 'toy country', with people's lives, and see how it pans out?" I am confident you soon will regret your new companionship with neoliberal and right populist political parties and movements. Bye. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
