Wow. Is this what passes for political analysis these days? How someone could be more confused about what is happening in Greece right now, I dont know. Simply astounding. This is certainly an ambitious plan and one that decisively breaks with the policies of austerity, but it is neither an attempt to radically transform Greek society nor an attack on capitalism. The political question of the moment is not the mechanics of a transition to socialism but, rather, the meeting of basic human needs, the restoration of some social protections from market forces, and, most importantly, the reassertion of the principle that political communities can and should decide how they will govern themselves. The radical message of Syriza that goes beyond all its particular plans for managing the economy and overcoming austerity is that citizens can and must decide their future and that, against the declarations of everyone from Margaret Thatcher to Schaeuble and Christine Lagarde, there is an alternative. This person has a strange idea that socialism has nothing to do with providing for people and somehow capitalism (in particular Greek capitalism) will be able to provide for the Greek people when it has so spectacularly demonstrated that it cannot. As well, citizens deciding their own futures = socialism. A small minority of people owning the vast majority of the wealth and means of production is in direct opposition to people controlling the own futures. How this person can claim that somehow this goes beyond particular plans for managing the economy is astounding. No, Syriza getting elected on this program is not an end to TINA, it actually will prove quite spectacularly that there is no alternative under capitalism. https://jacobinmag/2015/01/syriza-greece-election-tina/
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 04:01:44 +0000
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