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(395 posts) Sun Jul 19, 2015, 02:29 PM Jul 2015

Greece: Operation "mutation of the Left" has started!

“In the script according to the eurozone, the expected ending is: Syriza splits; finance minister Varoufakis makes good his pledge not to sign a surrender and resigns. A government of the centre-left forms, with Alexis Tsipras now allied to the centrist Potami party and with tacit support from a liberal wing of the New Democracy party. Debt relief happens, but on the terms dictated by the lenders, and Syriza survives to complete its mutation into a centre-left social democratic party.”

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2015/07/greece-operation-mutation-of-left-has.html

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Mad scientist dreams Demeter Jul 2015 #1

This is what I ALWAYS expected out of SYRIZA...... socialist_n_TN Jul 2015 #2

Demeter

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1. Mad scientist dreams

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Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:39 PM

Jul 2015

always have unexpected, unhappy endings. So, too, may this one.

Torches and pitchforks are usually involved, as is an enraged peasantry.

socialist_n_TN

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2. This is what I ALWAYS expected out of SYRIZA......

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Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:19 PM

Jul 2015

I supported the party critically because it had a lot of working class backing, BUT..... I knew that they would wind up betraying the workers and the people of Greece for one simple reason: THEY TRIED TO WORK WITH THE CAPITALISTS INSTEAD OF REPLACING THEM. Betrayal is what reformers ALWAYS do and SYRIZA was always a reformist coalition.

Edited to add: Even the Left Platform of SYRIZA is Menshevik. Even they are not calling for a break with the bourgeoisie. It's going to take a lot more than just trying to "reform" the beast that is capitalism.

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