LOL
Just consider what Syriza proposes: significant increases in government spending, a rise in the minimum wage and in pensions, and a splurge on entitlements. Most important, Tsipras intends to renegotiate and write off most of Greece’s massive debt obligations.Unfortunately for Greek voters, the world isn’t that simple. Syriza’s platform is, in fact, delusional.
The EU project, directed from Brussels, the Euro and European Central Bank are progressive/socialist social engineering projects (much like our own Federal Reserve)
What they have created in Greece over the last 15 years is the unavoidable price they will pay. And the EU masters in Brussels should pay it. Greece is beyond hope now - but maybe the rest of Europe (and the USA) can learn something.
Its a challenge to and a repudiation of neoliberal orthodoxy.
This is an answer to unfettered capitalism and governmental catering to the market.
And its also a rejection of “cartel politics” and insider deals that leave the vast majority of people worse off.
Austerity was never going to be viable for long because making people suffer for nothing is not a winning political strategy.
Angela Merkel and the Germans were too clever for their own good: they basically destroyed the underpinnings of the moderate left-wing and right-wing political parties in Greece and gave the fringe left plenty of room to grow.
One can’t help but wonder whether Germany’s CDU is really Germany’s Left Party in disguise.