{"id":9547,"date":"2015-06-30T06:43:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9547"},"modified":"2015-06-30T06:43:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:43:39","slug":"greece-and-the-marxism-of-syriza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9547","title":{"rendered":"Greece and the Marxism of Syriza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greece and the Marxism of Syriza<\/a><\/h3>\n

Has the Leopard Really Changed its Spots?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in February, a\u00a0brief article at the BBC<\/a>\u00a0remarked on the seeming transformation of Syriza from a bunch of Marxist dreamers into (shudder..) quasi-\u201cBlairites\u201d. To be sure, we also approved of the signs of pragmatism that emerged at the time. The party had seemingly ditched its previously implacable opposition to privatizations and didn\u2019t even try to tax the country\u2019s shipping magnates. The tax exemptions enjoyed by the latter strike many as unjust, but the fact is that they provide around 7% of Greek employment and their assets are out at sea. It is up to them under which flag said assets are sailing and it would be self-destructive to chase them away.<\/p>\n

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Given the stunt Mr. Tsipras just pulled (note that the Greek negotiators learned of his referendum announcement via Twitter \u2013 they were not privy to what was about to happen), we are not so sure that the leopard has really changed its spots. We are not critical of a referendum as such, on the contrary. However, the timing and the way Tsipras has gone about it, suggest that he is really trying to arrange for a \u201cGrexit\u201d and one cannot help getting the impression that this may have been the intention all along. As noted previously, a referendum could have been held months ago already \u2013 why wait until it is almost too late for all practical purposes?<\/p>\n

A reminder was provided by a mail correspondent of ours in Spain, who pointed out that the parties voting in favor of Tsipras\u2019 plan were Syriza, ANEL and Golden Dawn. As to the Stalinist KKE, he noted\u00a0\u201c[the] KKE is against everything (as usual), but I still have hope in their \u201cNo\u201d vote, closing the circle: from the Nazis to the Communists, all united against a free Europe, in a\u00a0\u201cMolotov-Ribbentrop v2.0\u2033.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Greece and the Marxism of Syriza Has the Leopard Really Changed its Spots? Back in February, a\u00a0brief article at the BBC\u00a0remarked on the seeming transformation of Syriza from a bunch of Marxist dreamers into (shudder..) quasi-\u201cBlairites\u201d. To be sure, we also approved of the signs of pragmatism that emerged at the time. The party had […]<\/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":[2],"tags":[6275,1167,6761,2598,3810,6170,4539,2236],"class_list":["post-9547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-actingman","tag-greece","tag-greek-referendum","tag-grexit","tag-marxism","tag-pater-tenebrarum","tag-privatization","tag-syriza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547","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=9547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9548,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547\/revisions\/9548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}