"Also, more tellingly, the majority of the Syriza central committee. 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."
If I were on the position of being a Syriza MP forced to vote on this deal I would have voted for it. I would have also spent the last six months fighting the party to make a real plan for exiting the Euro, but given that that didn't happen I would have voted for it. People misunderstand TINA. TINA doesn't say you need a plan to provide an alternative to austerity and structural reform, TINA says there is no alternative en toto. In their vision it is literally impossible to create an alternative. What I'm saying is that they haven't worked to create an alternative, that doesn't mean there isn't an alternative- it means there isn't an alternative at this historical moment. This is a huge failure and was not inevitable. it is one we need to correct, if not for Greece then for the rest of Europe's periphery. I think it's cowardly to not develop a viable exit plan and then vote against the horrible austerity and complete capitulation on offer. You're essentially taking the political benefit of not ultimately being the one making the decision without the political cost of how this impacts real people. -- -Nathan Tankus -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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