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(Points I have made repeatedly.)
Such political forces like Podemos and Syriza resulted from the crisis
and managed to come to positions of power in Greece and Spain, but for
the left to succeed, national success is not enough. In our globalized,
interconnected world change cannot be regional. Syriza is a good example
of this; they were unable to resist the Troika and by readjusting their
aims lost their radicalism. The situation might have been different if
other leftist parties had held positions of power in the European Union.
Unfortunately, the left has systematically failed to produce a
successful international movement, this because national ties and false
consciousness have overcome class solidarity. Wage-earners in today’s
Europe, possessing nothing but their labor, misperceive their position
in society. Althusser argued that this is due to the ideological state
apparatuses transmitting the ideology and values of the bourgeoisie.
Consumerism sustains this false consciousness: being able to buy the
latest IPhone on installment, holidaying with low cost companies,
purchasing middle class goods on sale, is not an indication of welfare
but that somewhere someone else is being exploited and that you have
signed up for a life on credit that you can’t afford.
http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/long-winding-road/
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