by system
failure
"There
is no alternative", once said the Iron Lady of neoliberalism in
Britain. Whole generations have grown with this phrase, they learned
to serve a culture that was already set for them: fast food, way of
life, fixed ideology. A fixed world which was there and they didn't
bother to dispute it and change it.
Political
children of Margaret Thatcher, today's European 'leaders' managed to
transform Europe into a financial dictatorship. After they destroyed
the Greek economy for five years, accompanied by the IMF mafia and
the Greek corrupted political system, Greece became a "junkie"
that begs for its dose from any Mr. Draghi. Now, they don't even care
to keep the pretexts: they just interrupt liquidity flow, every time
the democratically elected Greek government dares to dispute their
catastrophic policies.
They
repeatedly declare that "we Europeans when disagree, we discuss", while in the background they activate the policy of
blackmails, they send ultimatums. Hypocrites to the bone. Ruthless,
neoliberal Machiavellists. They teach lessons of good behaviour while
at the same time they receive precious "gifts" from
plutocracy to destroy whole countries.
The local
well-paid servants of plutocracy in Greece, say to us straight that
'there is no alternative'. They admit through an unbelievable
cynicism that 'there is nothing we can do, these Europeans (officials
and politicians) are ruthless', and therefore, 'there is no
alternative' we must surrender.
The dogs of
the system shout day and night, they spread panic, they blackmail
people through the mainstream media, to vote for "yes". This means something. They fear for
their corrupted empire. They fear of people's will. Of course, they
have common interests with Greece's creditors who have the machine
that prints money. They will continue a fierce, dirty war until
Tsipras to fall so that to bring back their puppets.
Everything
is clear now, we must not fool ourselves. Either Greeks will choose
to fight hard to spread the message to Europe, or, will surrender without terms. Greeks have now a big advantage in the war: their
truly own government, not a puppet of the European plutocracy and the
local oligarchs.
I can't
imagine the "yes" in Sunday's referendum. It would mean the
acceptance of slavery and self-extermination.
How is it
possible someone to accept that? What message we Greeks would send to
the European people who protest in the streets to support us, who
suffer under cruel austerity too? What message we would send if the
"yes" prevail? Just that we have surrendered? That we gave
up hope? That we bent our heads, waiting for our executors?
There is no
alternative: NO.
Related:
Of course there are alternatives:
ReplyDelete(1) Greece votes 'No', whereupon creditors will refuse to extend further loans and Greece will be issuing script money (lets call them drachme) around July 20, thereby de facto leaving the Eurozone and going their own way. No more Eurozone tax money for Greece's debt rollovers. If Greece wishes to borrow again within the near future however, it will have to come to an agreement with its creditors first. When that happens, it will have very little good will left as regards cancellation or restructuring of debts.
(2) Greece votes 'Yes' and recommences negotiations. Reforms (pensions, minimum wages, government streamlining) will be mandatory, as will continued austerity. I think that the creditors agree that a social safety net to aid certain groups is needed and must be financed as part of the debt rollover deal. Even in this case, debt restructuring cannot be avoided (meaning a net donation of Eurozone tax money to Greece !), but will be contingent on Greece's progress with reforms.
I really wish that people in Greece would realise that:
- (1) Greece MUST reform its economy if it is to remain part of the Eurozone. That means pensions, labour laws, minimum wages, and efficient government. It wasn't sufficiently converged when it was admitted and it failed to achieve convergence. It's now paying the price for that failure. Greece can either restructure within the Eurozone (where it must practice austerity) or outside (where it can devalue its currency and practice austerity anyway).
- (2) the rest of Europe has zero obligation to donate Greece money (in the form of debt cancellation) and that Syriza's loudmouthed demands in this direction are counterproductive.
- (3) Greece's referendum is all very fine, but the Greek electorate doesn't own the loans. The Eurozone electorate does, and Greece's referendum does not impose any obligations on them to be more forthcoming.
What's at stake is far more than this.
DeleteFair enough. Greece made its choice. Grexit it is then.
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