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In reply to the discussion: Germans warns Greece: no cuts, no aid [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Hack89: You claim you don't care, "it has no impact on" you, but you're always pushing anti-Greek propaganda and supremacist condescension. This is the dozenth thread or more you've started, and you always blame the Greek people and suggest they are childish and irresponsible.
This is not a Greek crisis. It has been happening everywhere, with outbreaks in many countries, and many yet to come.
This is not a debate about Greece. It is about how to understand the crisis and where to place the blame.
The crisis is an international one of the kind that capitalism always generates.
The proximate cause was the enormous criminal fraud perpetrated on the world by the Wall Street banks, ratings agencies and regulators, who were playing entirely by the rules they themselves wrote. As a result of the fraud, their system crashed in September 2008, and they would have and should have ceased to exist. However, this world-destroying beast was revived by way of a US bailout.
Ever since, the banksters and the right wing (of all countries) have taken to retroactively blaming the crisis on public sector spending. They wasted no time in confusing the issue and resuming their class war. The crisis became an opportunity to continue implementing neoliberal aims; although these neoliberal aims had caused the crisis in the first place - it didn't matter. No matter what, they always know to apply shock doctrine.
Since then, the world has been in depression. Ireland, which played by all the neoliberal rules and had a deregulated economy, constrained wages and balanced budgets, was devastated. Ireland has not become the poster child for capitalist propaganda against the public sector, because it doesn't tell the right story: even when you play by their rules, the banks will fuck you as soon as they see a percentage in it. No, Greece was chosen for that role, because enough things are wrong in Greece (from a neoliberal perspective) that it can be blamed for a crisis that it did not cause.
And I think this is the appeal to you for your constant propagation of the anti-Greek propaganda.