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On 21/03/2015 02:16 πμ, Ralph Johansen via Marxism wrote:
Since no one here seems to have mentioned it and it's in the news everywhere else, here's the current entry in Troika's kitbag. Is this gaffe indicative? Of what? Political inexperience? An insensitive academic out of tune with constituency? What reaction and upshot within Syriza, and for Greece, Germany? How many ways from Sunday can they (and he) bring a guy down?
While it is a quite disgusting situation (and a point to stand and denounce for the left) that those right-wing imperialist media parrots dare criticizing SYRIZA from ... the left and it is certainly unfair for the comrades inside SYRIZA -even in their Sisyphean task- it is nevertheless pretty fair for the party as a whole, whose politics and not just that person, gave ground to them: The party has been long before turning to the right and has been shopping cheep from the rats who were abandoning, just in time, PASOK's ship.
The tip of the iceberg, the preference of Varoufakis over Milios, a newcomer from PASOK over a founding member of SYRIZA and its leadership, a prominent economist and head of the economical planing committee of the party, with a lifelong record in left-wing politics (an Althusserian reformist in my eyes but a serious one and certainly NOT a clown to expose his bedroom in public view) could not be made without political consequences and adjacent policy choices: Milios is definitely NOT a nationalist and he would have been at odds with the anti-germany rhetoric (and especially the reactionary nonsenses about WW2 war reparations) of SYRIZA in accordance to the right wingers of its governmental partner ANEL.
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