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Andrew Pollack wrote
Subject: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/antarsya-syriza-communist-party-greece-euro/
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Several things struck me as I read this discussion, not comprehensive or
in any particular order but maybe central in many respects. First, the
tendency to speak of the student movement and its twists and turns in
terms that did not relate it to the lives of actual working, struggling
people in the midst of a deep depression - their hopes and their fears
in light of their experiences and assessment of the situation, the
alternatives and the prospects as they see them, and how that relates to
the feasibility of any specific program, to the left of Syriza
especially; second, the lack of detail or responsive analysis when asked
to identify the strains of Althusserianism that he saw in parts of the
student movement and their perceived significance - in effect, he shined
it on and it wasn't pursued (although possibly in view of avoidance to
use time most productively); third, the absence of any engagement with
the real problems, in detail, in working within a hostile capitalist
structure to effect socialist transition, effectively foiling the
bankers' rigid ploys in a way that at the same time engages the
strengths of the Greek working class constituency - this discussion is
absent here, and it has to underlie elucidation of any viable program of
transition, every step of the way, or it's all about organizational
leftish muck; and fourth, absence of a detailed critique in whatever
thumbnail form of the tactical strengths and weaknesses and the
resulting prospects for Syriza, and how Antarsya would better it.
I have another question that has not been adequately dealt with to my
mind: the significance for the prospects for a radical outcome of the
presence of a somewhat uniquely large small business component in the
Greek economy.
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