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On 23/05/2015 04:52 πμ, Michael Karadjis wrote:
Interesting that Syriza ahs such low support on the campuses (less than
Pasok!). Though if we add together Syriza and Antarsya we're looking at
Syriza and Antarsya and other non-KKE left, it's around a quarter of the
vote. Any comments Ioannis on why Syriza is so weak on campuses?
The students movement used to play a significant role in greek politics
back in the 70's and 80's because of its radicalization and the aureole
of Polytechnic insurrection of 1973 ; suffice to say that New Democracy
was then hardly present in elections. With the neoliberal turn of 90's
the students movement began moving to the right and declining, yet
student elections still make big titles in the newspapers.
Though i have not a first hand understanding of what is going on in
campuses, for me, the interesting thing in those results is the PASP
phenomenon, which, like the bad guy in the final scene of some Hollywood
movies, just refuse to die!
Pasp used to have a dominant position for about 30 years in the campuses
and they have established multiple client relations some of them are
still at work, according to the youth of the FI's
OKDE-Spartacos.(http://okde-youth.blogspot.gr/2015/05/blog-post.html)
They report the same thing about DAP(ND): DAP, they say, has an
competent electoral mechanism, distributes class notes for the exams,
organizes parties and socializes the students, maintains client relations.
They fail to mention, that all these could have never occurred without
the neoliberal exclusive university; the more anxious about their
future, the more responsive to client practices the students are. But it
is also the left to blame about.
The left wing organizations refuse of course to play that game of DAP
and PASK. Yet they all have electoral gains. But given the gigantic 38%
of DAP (while ND is on 15%) there is not much to expect.
But there is a further explanation for AREN's admittedly poor
percentage, which, more generally, holds for the whole SYRIZA. During
these few last memorandum years, since 2012, they were absent or
restrained in the movements. SYRIZA's tactic favored moderate protests,
if that was inevitable, but certainly not strikes, not confrontation,
not vindications, that could allegedly disturb the electorate maturation
as to concede parliamentary majority to the left. In line with that, as
OKDE-Spartacos youth put it, AREN has abstained of any militant
attitude in the campuses while unable to rally anyone moving in the
interstices, supporting, even temporary, the [SYRIZA's] government.
It was AREN's pathetic attitude that not only facilitated the corrosive
tactic of DAP and PASP, but also made themselves look unreliable in the
campuses, to the extend that they could not even pick their own
government's supporters up!
On top of that, it was not only AREN who had such a pathetic
attitude.The PKS(KKE) had the same attitude, but for a different reason.
They wanted no confrontations, no students victories because they were
afraid that THE MAIN ENEMY, namely SYRIZA, would be electorally
favored, outgoing KKE! Pure third period, butter on DAP's bread.
Finally, the embarrassment of the students movement (along with the
working class movement) including EAAK (and ANTARSYA) since January
25th, has yet favored DAP's client politics. As long as students are
just waiting for a legislative initiative by the government it is time
for them to concentrate on exams and on DAP's helpful class notes.
JA
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