Skyrocketing
abstention, social demobilisation and an impending wave of harsh
austerity measures call for critical reflection after Syriza’s
victory.
Theodoros Karyotis
Syriza's electoral slgan on a bus stop: "Hope is coming" Graffiti underneath: "I was just waiting for the bus" |
How can
they celebrate, when tomorrow the new Syriza-led government has to
enforce and oversee the implementation of a harsh attack on nature
and the popular classes, having given up its capacity to legislate
without the tutelage of Brussels and Berlin, and being under constant
financial blackmail by the creditors?
Left-wing
pragmatism and social demobilisation
Tsipras'
new "selling point" is his fight against corruption and the
oligarchy, since his newly-adopted "pragmatism" dictates
that he cannot anymore fight against austerity and neoliberal
restructuring. Thus, the horizon of left-wing politics in Greece has
become an "austerity with a human face", a "less
corrupt" and "more just" enforcement of neoliberal
barbarity.