Greek election thread.

[socialist_n_TN]

9. I like BOG's perspective on this..........

Because the people (both in Wisconsin and in Greece) still have faith in bourgeois "democracy", it doesn't matter particularly who wins this round. Whoever wins they'll fail because they will still be trying to fit the Greek people into the shoehorn of the Merkel austerity policy. And the only thing that austerity will bring is more misery for the people. That's not good of course, but it probably IS the only way to get the masses of the people over the idea that anything will change within the context of electoral politics.

Now, the more revolutionary parties (Syriza, KKE, Antasya [sp?] and yes, Golden Dawn) can battle it out for the hearts and minds of the anti-austerians in OPPOSITION to the austerity parties. IOW, this isn't over by a long shot.

BTW, I saw in Late Breaking News that PASOK is now saying that they won't coalesce with ND without Syriza. THAT'S an interesting development in and of itself. Now it could be (and probably is) just a ploy to gain more powerful posts in the coalition government, BUT even so, it DOES prove to me what kind of influence a farther left party will have on a centrist left one. It pulls the debate to the left when the centrist left has to account for their left flank and not just triangulate and constantly move right.