{"id":5388,"date":"2015-02-07T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2015-02-07T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T15:00:12","slug":"the-communist-manifesto-2015-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5388","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Communist Manifesto\u2019 (2015 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate\/2015\/02\/06\/the-communist-manifesto-2015-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u2018The Communist Manifesto\u2019 (2015 edition)<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In the\u00a0<i>Communist Manifesto<\/i>, Karl Marx wrote that \u201ca specter is haunting Europe \u2014 the specter of communism.\u201d<br \/>\nThat image has been much adapted. The specters that have been held to haunt the Europe of today include Americanization, privatization, the far right, and the breakup of the euro, among others. Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, said recently that today\u2019s haunting specter is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2014\/nov\/16\/spectre-communism-fear-austerity-germany-eurozone\">economic stagnation<\/a>,\u201d daring to invoke Marx from the heart of the City of London.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the original specter in 1848, wandering unheeded for many decades, is back, hovering again over the old continent. Communism is again haunting Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Syriza, which won the Greek parliamentary elections last month and is the dominant party in the country\u2019s coalition government, is a layered confection of mainly hard-left parties, survivors of \u2014 and combatants in \u2014 the splits, wars and betrayals of a Greek left whose members had been, over the years since the war, outlawed, imprisoned, tortured and, in the last three decades, marginalized.<\/p>\n<p>The new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, was a leader of the youth wing of one of the communist parties. Its finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, says he is a libertarian Marxist. The party has promised to raise wages, rehire sacked public-sector workers and nationalize sectors of the economy. In an interview with Britain\u2019s Channel Four news, Varoufakis said that his government would confront the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialeurope.eu\/2015\/01\/first-three-things-syriza-government\/\">oligarchic system<\/a>\u201d in Greece \u2014 the mix of political leaders, wealthy business people and their media \u2014 and \u201cdestroy\u201d it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Communist Manifesto\u2019 (2015 edition) In the\u00a0Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx wrote that \u201ca specter is haunting Europe \u2014 the specter of communism.\u201d That image has been much adapted. The specters that have been held to haunt the Europe of today include Americanization, privatization, the far right, and the breakup of the euro, among others. Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2872,3299,3301,281,1167,3300,995,599,2236],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alexis-tsipras","tag-communism","tag-communist-manifesto","tag-europe","tag-greece","tag-karl-marx","tag-mark-carney","tag-oligarchs","tag-syriza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5389,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}