The WSJ misses one point that might be important. Alexis Tsipras: "What was the result of the Greek people’s strong position, against all odds, in the referendum? It was able to internationalize the problem, to make it spread beyond its borders, to unmask the image of the European partners and creditors. It was able to show international opinion the image not of a lazy people but of a people who are resisting and demanding justice and a future. We tested the limits of resistance of the eurozone. We had an impact on the relation of forces."
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/greece-memorandum-austerity-coup-tsipras-syriza-interview/ And the Telegraph newspaper worries about this internationalization. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11758853/Why-Greeces-ritual-humiliation-wont-kill-off-Europes-revolutionary-Left.html On 8/15/2015 10:09 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > The Wall Street Journal celebrates the Tsipras leadership’s about face: > > “…Mr. Tsipras and his Syriza colleagues have negotiated their own, brand new, > three-year Memorandum of Understanding that cuts across almost every red line > that the party set when it came to power. It goes directly against the grain > of the Marxist ideology that much of Syriza’s leadership has clung to all of > their political lives, accepts almost every reform that they had previously > rejected, and has come in super-quick time following the smoothest of > negotiations with the minimum of disagreements.” > > Capitalism craves stability, and the eurozone powers are clearly delighted > with Syriza’s direction and hopeful that the government’s current popularity > will serve to dampen mass unrest in Greece. > > “How he (Tsipras) has managed to do this while maintaining his popularity has > left many mystified. ‘It’s beyond comprehension,' one senior German official > says. ‘It probably wouldn’t be possible anywhere else in Europe’…No one is > interested in further destabilizing Greece; there is a recognition that Mr. > Tsipras’s strong political position makes him the first Greek leader since > the start of the crisis capable of providing stability”, reports the Journal. > > Full: > http://www.wsj.com/articles/syriza-has-shredded-all-its-red-lines-1439411292 > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
