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Louis: "Politics is a complicated business. If you are interested in morality,
I recommend the Sermon on the Mount and Alex Callinicos's prose."
Generally (as in "so what?") I would agree, Louis, that what a leftist
government has to do in context of capitalist assault to maintain even this
tiny amount of struggle against imperialist austerity is "complicated". It is
not a moral question, but it is a political one. Why do you insist on defending
Tsipiras, even if he may not defend himself if your implication by resorting to
Lenin is that somehow the man holds a different view of his decisions made of
"necessity"? Of course it is complicated if you are responsible for power. You,
however, are not and, unfortunately, the likely most revolutionary forces
inside Syriza may also not be. It is a "complicated" issue to maintain support
for a leftist government (not there are no quotes around the term, because I
share the belief in that designation) while at the same time seeking to press
revolutionary aims and perspectives and thereby seeking to reach out to
revolutionary elements in Greece whose only voice is being echoed by ideolo
gues like Callinicos?
The decision to engage with Egyptian military dictators may be one of
"complicated politics", but it is defenitely not revolutionary politics. I
urge you to keep your hand on "the stick" without bending it to accommodate the
politics of expediency, "complicated" or not.
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