On 7/21/15 2:30 PM, Charlie wrote: > Lefties loved it. "If this is 'reformism', I am all for it." ( > http://louisproyect.org/2015/01/25/reflections-on-syriza/ )
In terms of the Thessalonika program, I would remind KKE fan boy Charlie what I said days before Syriza took office in that very article: "Of course the real question is whether Syriza can deliver such reforms given the relationship of forces that exist. Germany, its main adversary, has a population of 80 million and a GDP of nearly 4 trillion dollars. Greece, by comparison, has a population of 11 million and a GDP of 242 billion dollars, just a bit more than Volkswagen’s revenues. Given this relationship of forces, it will be a struggle to achieve the aforementioned reforms. To make them possible, it will be necessary for the workers and poor of Greece to demonstrate to Europe that they will go all the way to win them. It will also be necessary for people across Europe to demonstrate their solidarity with Greece so as to put maximum pressure on Germany and its shitty confederates like François Hollande to back off. But if your main goal in politics is to lecture the Greeks about the need for workers councils, armed struggle and all the rest, you obviously have no need to waste your time on such measly reforms." I would only add that the KKE would have been viewed by most people on the left as acting within Leninist norms by forming a united front with Syriza. Instead it stayed cocooned within its own ultimatistic and sterile redoubt lecturing the masses on the need for Grexit. I would say that there is about as much chance of the KKE taking power in Greece as Charlie's latest book moving past #2,298,851 on Amazon.com. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
