Troika? Ez aipatu, arren! (1)

Hona hemen eztabaidarako beste lan interesgarri bat1. Bertan Grezia, Syriza eta ezkerra zer ote den aipatzen dira.

Badirudi Grezian hitz batzuk aipatzea debekatuta dagoela2.

Dirudienez, ‘denbora’ da kontua3.

Bill Mitchell-ek jakin badaki.

I know that I am an armchair observer. I know the Greek Finance Minister personally and he is very bright. I know that.

I know that the US economist, James Galbraith, who many mistakenly label as a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), is in Athens and knows ‘inside stuff’ and assures us all is going to plan – see Reading The Greek Deal Correctly.”

Esperantza ona da baina iruzurra txarra da4.

Manolis Glezos ezaguna da Grezian. Hona hemen berari buruz Mitchell-ek dioena5.

Tsipras-ek ez bide du ulertzen Glezos-ek esandakoa6.

Baina argiago eta garbiago ezin esan7.

Eta zer esan James Galbraith-ez?

(Hala Warren Mosler-ek nola Bill Mitchell-ek, biek, oso ongi ezagutzen dute J. Galbraith.)

Hona Mitchell-ek dioena, Galbraith-en jarreraz:

Galbraith is on the public record as supporting Greece staying the euro. I completely disagree with his rationalisation of that position.”

Mitchell-ek luze idatzi du azken egunotan Greziari buruz8. (Blog honetan Mitchell-ek idatzitakoez aritu gara azken bolada honetan, luze ere.)

Argi geratu zaiguna, oso argi ondokoa da:

It is clear that Syriza could not honour its end austerity pledges and still stay in the Eurozone. They should have been honest about that in the first place.”

(Segituko du.)


1 Ikus Don’t mention the war! er the Troika…: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=30293#more-30293.

2 Mitchell-ek, ingelesez: “Apparently, it is now a case of ‘Don’t mention the Troika’, ‘Don’t mention the Memorandum’ and never ever talk about the ‘Lenders’. The bullying threesome (European Commission, ECB and the IMF) are now known as “the institutions” and the “Memorandum” (the bailout package) is now to be called “The Agreement” and the “Lenders” have been recast as the “Partners”. Okay, and that is progress. The Reform package surely lets the Greeks choose which nasty policy they will implement but it is still nasty. Yes, it “buys them time”.

3 Ingelesez. “Yes, it “buys them time”. The damage from massive unemployment and poverty eats into people every day. 4 months is a long time when you are on the street starving. And by the time this agreement is done – will the Germans be happy to unleash billions of euros via the European Investment Bank to allow the Greek government to continue running fiscal primary surpluses and keep pumping interest income on outstanding debt into ‘foreign’ coffers? Pigs might fly.”

4 Ingelesez: “He [Galbraith] lectures those who would claim that the Greeks have surrendered again as being incorrect! Okay. We will see on that one. There are several others – mostly ‘progressives’ – who are constructing the Reforms and the process to date in a positive light – almost as if they want to hang onto the thinnest thread of hope given how bleak the overall situation is.

5 Ingelesez: “One Syriza MP clearly believes that the Greek people are being sold out by his own party. I guess Alex Tsipras and the Finance Minister “respect” the national Greek hero from World War II – Manolis Glezos – but don’t think much of what he has to say.

Glezos was the person who was in the Greek resistance against the Nazis during the World War II occupation. Together with another resistance member he tore the swastika flag down from the Acropolis on May 20, 1941, which was a famous historical act that inspired broader resistance. He has a history of travail and imprisonment in the face of oppression – first the Nazis, then against the right-wingers during the – Greek Civil War, and then during the Cold War. He is now a Syriza Parliamentary Member and has written in Monthly Review (February 22, 2015) – Before It Is Too Late – that the Greek peope voted on January 25, 2015 for “what SYRIZA promised”.

He said it was unambiguous:

We will overthrow the regime of austerity that is not only the strategy of the oligarchy in Germany and other EU creditor states, but also the Greek oligarchy. We will get rid of the Memoranda and the Troika and repeal all the austerity laws. The day after the elections, with one law we will overthrow the Troika and overturn its consequences. The developments to date have clearly not honoured those pledges. Glezos then said: For my part, I apologize to the Greek people because I, too, was a collaborator in the creation of this illusion.

6 Ingelesez: “The EUObserver reported (February , 2015) – Greece tables reforms, awaits eurozone approval – that:

Tsipras’ spokesman said that Glezos is “someone whom we will never cease to honour,” but that his comments were “misguided and wrong”.

7 Ingelesez: “Glezos clearly understands external oppression and he is right to say that the whole Eurozone arrangements with the Eurogroup as one of the central enforcing groups is an oppressive regime. There are no guns involved but the oppression and the undermining of democracy and national sovereignty is real.

It is invasion and occupation by another means.”

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