Ich hatte hier neulich auf das von Left Voice mit Kostas Skordoulis von der ANTARSYA-Mitgliedsorganisation OKDE-Spartacus geführte Interview hingewiesen. Gestern verlinkte er bei FB einen englischsprachigen Artikel von Genss(Inn?)en aus der Türkei. Ich habe dazu bei FB folgenden Kommentar gepostet:
I agree with the main part of the fourth last paragraph: ‚ANTARSYA […], made a proposal to Popular Unity […] based on the unity of action and some political principles against the new cut downs for a collaboration during elections. These principles consisted of the complete cancellation of the loan, nationalization of the banks under workers’ control and support for the workers’ struggle against the cut downs. However Popular Unity showed that their perspective is nothing more than a softened version of Syriza’s project by not accepting this offer. While Syriza started to resemble PASOK, Popular Unity is a candidate for being Syriza of the future. With this situation in hand, ANTARSYA decided to run for elections on its own.” And I agree also with: ‚ANTARSYA should mobilize and strengthen the organization of their own power and their great circle in the upcoming period […].’
Painting: ANTARSYA (left) prophecies the fate of SYRIZA (right below)
However, I do not agree with the main thesis of the article (‚So with Tsipras out of the equation, more radical [read: more left] elements will become effective.’) and neither with last sentence of the fourth last paragraph of the article: ‚On the other hand, despite the intensifying crisis and Syriza’s betrayal, KKE still cannot exceed their normal 6-7% limit because of their incurable sectarianism.’ – And?! ANTARSYA probably will not exceed the 3 % limit. Is it because of an ‚incurable sectarianism’ of ANTARSYA as well?!
I’m not Greek; I do not live in Greece and I can’t read Greek. Therefore it is difficult for me to make a proper analysis. Nevertheless, after all what I have read in German, in English and Castilian within the last about 10 ten weeks about Greece give me the impression: The situation is much more complicate; is even worse.
Yes, the KKE is signed by ‚incurable sectarianism’. But that is, for my point of view, not the reason, why it can’t exceed the 6 – 7 % limit.
Maybe ANTARSYA made some mistake as well (I don’t know). But I’m sure, such hypothetical mistakes are not the reason, why it can’t exceed even the 3 % limit.
The real problem is: There is no mass support in Greece for any (!) policy more left than the policy of SYRIZA (with all its former illusions and current capitulation). The former illusions and the current capitulation are not only SYRIZA ones; there are also the own of the people, of the Greek masses. – And in the other European countries the situation is even worse; most worse, maybe, in Germany.
As far as I have read, the greatest manifestation in Greece since Tsipras’ signing the new basic agreement in Brussels in the morning of the 13th of July had about 15.000 participants. That is less than 10 % of the great manifestations in Greece between 2010 and 2012.
As far as I have read, there are in Greece currently nearly no occupations of enterprise plants and buildings of the public administration. Contrary to what the author says, ‚strikes and protests’ are NEVER ‚fired up inevitably’ – there is always to do a decision for it before. And every time alternative decisions for resignation or the alignment for fascist tendencies can be made. The author himself states correctly: ‚In a case where the strikes and street protests are weak, the chance for Golden Dawn to make a breakthrough will increase.’
And nearly all polls assume, that the parties on the right to SYRIZA will receive more votes than in January. And SYRIZA itself made, as we all know, a sharp u-turn from anti-austerity to neoliberalism. And on the far right populist ANEL will decline, but the Nazi-Party Golden Dawn will increase even more.
On the other hand, Popular Unity will receive some votes; maybe a little bit less, maybe a little bit more than the KKE. However, as the author of the article indicates rightly, – except of the currency question, PU shares the basic illusions of ‚Good Old SYRIZA’. But in any case it will not receive more than one third of the votes of SYRIZA in January. That means also: It will receive less votes than SYRIZA in May 2012.
So, what we have to see is not a left current in Greece, rather a trend, that strengthens the right wing! Compared with all that, the fact the KKE and ANTARSYA will gain each about 1 or 2 percent points more than in January is a quantité negliable.
Last point: I also do not agree with the term ‚Syriza’s betrayal’. There was nobody saying something different than that, what he or she really intended. SYRIZA had up from the beginning a self-contradictory programme: ending the austerity, but staying within the Euro zone; making economy “more social”, but not intending to smash the bourgeois state and to overcome the capitalist mode of production. Everyone could knew, that this will not work – at least not in our current period of capitalist crisis and bourgeois class attack. Everything was fully transparent. There was no secret plan of Tsipras for betraying the masses in Greek. Surely, there were as well some machination behind the stage; but such machinations are never the most elementary aspects of the class struggle.
Tsipras said before the January elections, what he will try. He tried this – and, of course: He failed. There was no betrayal and no treason.
And of course ANTARSYA knew all this a long time before the January elections – and said it. Therefore especially ANTARSYA has no reason for complaining about being betrayed. Rather ANTARSYA was a well-working Cassandra.
“Reason” for complaining about being betrayed do have only people, who shared the former illusions of SYRIZA – and still think, it could have ended up with that illusions differently, than it ended up in reality.
Hopefully, one day the Greek masses will end the tragedy and start to hear to our beloved Cassandra-ANTARSYA. Really?
Sorry, for my idiosyncratic German English.
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