laiki symmaxia - KKE

The issue is not to be radical even if it means that you don't have to. You are not born to be radical, you are forced to be a radical because of the objective conditions created by the capitalist system. Your question and answer is irrelevant.

Anyone who knows at least a bit about Greek politics, knows that many former PASOK members are now running for SYRIZA. And its not just that. The party's somewhat eurocommunist rhetoric since the 60s has now been transformed to include much of centre. It has become a new PASOK with much less radical rhetoric even than PASOK in 1981. Why should people in Greece be fooled again?

This is not pragmatism, this is the smell of power, of managing the bourgeois state along of course with a number of individuals that are against the values and visions of the traditional left. And unlike some rich kids and petty-bourgeois academics who consider the question of power and revolution as a scholastic matter to drink wine by the fireplace, building socialism for some people is a necessity.

Many people in US including many Jacobin Magazine commentators have articulated the need to move beyond the Democratic party, beyond the votes out of fear against Republicans. This is the same thing. Greek voters have been so terrorised by different factions of capital, that they cannot escape middle class politics of fear. Syriza has the advantage to say that it is a new party, but in fact, it is not that new [check its history]. Nevertheless it can use full potential of its newbie status.

The issue that most people do not understand [or do not want to understand], is that what is at stake now in Greece is not a simple good/bad guys battle, but a battle of capitalist class that is articulated through a variety of parties, including Syriza, through two distinct strategies, one austerity and the other anti-asuterity but with a strategic alliance between the two to stay within the EU that has as a trademark, more privatization and market fundamentalism as its starting point. On the other hand is the working class organizations that are organized in an alliance called laiki symmaxia [popular alliance] with Communist party of Greece as its main force. We have heard nothing about those guys outside Greece although they are the main force in the streets and strikes. Are you not curious to find out why?