by system
failure
It is
certain that various US think tanks will be monitoring right now the
rise of the Left in Greece with the radical-Left party SYRIZA, as
well as Podemos in Spain and other countries in Europe
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/11/signs-of-resistance-against-neoliberal.html).
It's quite
remarkable that the US political system, especially after Clinton
administration, has been adopted by Europe, with the transformation
of the Social-democrats. A characteristic example is Greece, as the
Socialist party PASOK under Kostas Simitis, implemented the
neoliberal perception of the free market and the financialization of
nearly every aspect of economic activity.
However, as
in the US the Left was demonized for decades and totally vanished
from the political scene, Europe was meant to be the field of the new
Leftist political powers, after the latest global financial crisis.
Inevitably, any possible change will start from Europe and follow a
reverse direction of that of neoliberalism in the early 90s.
Therefore, a
first potential consequence would be that such a possibility could
become a good example of an alternative political solution against
the bipolar plutocratic political establishment in the US, which was
enhanced rapidly after Clinton administration in the early 90s,
secured big capital's interests and left no choice to the majority of
the American people to vote for their interests.
A second
consequence for the US deep state would be the loss of Europe in the
new Cold War. Except from Britons, who have traditional deep ties and
common interests with the US, the rest of Europe could slip to the
Sino-Russian bloc which grows rapidly in the military and economic
field and increasingly gaining independence from the Western economic
system, attracting other countries too.
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/08/a-perfect-timing-for-argentina-to.html)
A third
consequence would be the abrupt termination of the Greek experiment
and its deployment in Europe and the US. This could trigger a reverse
situation against the accelerated expansion of the neoliberal
doctrine* in its most extreme version as a forerunner for the
new global Feudalism.
Plutocrats
will do whatever necessary to buy more time. The war already started
in Europe. The systemic establishment in Greece try to present SYRIZA
as a non-serious political power and downgrade the rapid change of
the Greek and the European political scene especially after the
latest euro-elections. At the same time, current government is ready
to collapse and therefore already tries to force the Left to
compromise and agree on the catastrophic measures imposed by Troika.
SYRIZA, of course, refused to do this and asks for immediate
elections.
Post-WWII
history shows that the United States tried to prevent the rise of the
Left in Europe during the whole period of the Cold War, because of
the fear of the Soviet further expansion. This was done through
provocative operations against Leftist organizations (Gladio in
Italy)
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/10/an-example-of-provocative-operations-in.html),
or, by supporting dictatorial regimes (junta in Greece)
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/04/black-anniversary.html),
etc. Surely, the US deep state will try to prevent a domino of rise
of the Left in Europe, for one more time, as this will probably bring
serious trouble to the economic elites both in the US and Europe. The
propaganda by the mainstream media already started.
All these
scenarios, however, could also make neocons even more anxious to
impose their lunatic plans to provoke a general conflict with Russia as the only alternative against the dramatic shift of the global
geopolitical balance, unless we see a fast creation of a
corresponding political power in the US inspired by the European
Left. It would be even better if such a power could rise from the
movements in the streets (Occupy movement, etc.), like Podemos in
Spain.
A unified
Left could trigger rapid changes globally against the neoliberal
expansion, destroying plutocracy's plans for total domination. Of
course this would require to remain ideologically pure, not to be
transformed and absorbed by the neoliberal perception like
Social-democrats. Οtherwise, the new political gap could trigger
unprecedented and uncontrolled, chaotic situations, in the absence of
any other political alternative that could fill it.
* According to these plans,
the ultimate goal would be probably to dissolve the vast Russian
territory in future and bring in power Western-friendly puppet
regimes, in order not only to conquer the valuable resources, but
also to impose permanently the neoliberal doctrine on "unexplored"
regions and populations.
You are dead wrong. The "left" is dead in the waters in Europe and for good reason. Nationalism is coming back. Right wing conservatism.
ReplyDeleteDead right more like. Change is coming and it's coming sooner than imbeciles like you might believe
ReplyDeleteYet a third anonymous...
ReplyDeleteIt's not about right or left anymore, it's about liberal/anti-liberal. Liberalism as evolved into neo-liberalism, a unregulated free trade monstrosity that's starving populations worldwide.
Two forces are actively anti-liberal: the extreme left wing, and patriotic right wing conservatism - though not in the USA, where no such thing as an anti-liberal thought exists. The union of those two forces, in Europe, fought the Nazis in WW2 - they were the interior resistance in the occupied countries. They are truly anti-totalitarian, one though its statist stance (the state as the incarnation of the majority's will and not the corrupt thing they call "state" in the USA) and income equality claims, the other through statism (yes, them too, and with the same meaning as for the left wing), patriotism and the refusal to surrender to supra-national or foreign forces.
Forth anonymous....it is really about US hegemony and the continued domination by Washington of its vassal states in Europe. The idiots in Washington would have liked Russia as a vassal state but Putin is not playing that game. However, their thick headed response has served to push Russia and China together and started to fragment Europe. Outcomes that will be disastrous for the US Empire and even Kissinger has got out of his coffin to say so. I don’t think a shift to the right across Europe would guarantee slavish support for the US Empire either. I do think that the ‘EU’ as a project is doomed as its underlying financial system will unravel.
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