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Syriza, at least its predominating faction, seems to have resolved a seemingly intractable contradiction by grasping the regressive aspect, splitting, as Mao had it, the "revolutionary front", but that may be an ultra view under the circumstances. A faction not ripe, or times not ripe because of the absence of European solidarity, or possibly still as a situation inaccurately read. Into ignominious historical obscurity in any event, if true, then; someone mentioned Blum - "/Tout est possible!/" (Everything is possible) and in the end another coalition paralyzed by nationalism, economic crisis and geopolitical fears. But even if disillusionment and apathy for the time being, they by no stretch take the left into obscurity with them. (After all, the left's already obscure?) I will remember two things, though: that the Syriza coalition was predominantly reformist in its approach ("it is the Left’s historical duty, at this particular juncture, to stabilise capitalism; to save European capitalism from itself and from the inane handlers of the Eurozone’s inevitable crisis"), fearing (or unable) to take control of commanding heights, and that the Greek class structure (leaving aside the over all European class structure and the absence of pan-European solidarity with Syriza) was, although moving toward proletariat in composition, still small-business-informal economy-tourist-and-colonialist-minded - a peripheral country within a metropolitan complex, with metropolitan predilections.
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