Greece: The Moment of Decision

What is needed now is a bold leadership.

I don't see how that will change much. Greece already had "leaders" who proved cowards in the face of capital. If anything, by focusing on strong leadership Greece will turn to nationalism, especially considering the resistance that the EU will bring to the table.

On the basis of experience, the workers will come to see that we are right.

Ew. The workers are the ones that should be running the joint. Hell, even this piece claims:

Instead of accepting the dictates of Merkel and Schäuble, the leaders of Syriza should have gone to the people and asked them to decide in a referendum. Mass meetings should have been held all over Greece, in every town, factory, island and village to debate the question. There is no doubt that the result would have been a massive No, which would have provided the government with a strong mandate to confront its enemies.

Which makes one wonder how needed the leaders are if the masses would have done a better job than them. The problem comes in that politics is local while capital is global. This is typified by this statement:

Channel Four’s correspondent Paul Mason asked Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister and head of the Eurogroup, whether Europe had not “trashed” Greece’s democratic will. The latter answered that voters in one country cannot tell voters elsewhere how to spend their money.

This despite the obvious fact that the EU is attempting to force Greece into making concessions specifically about how Greece will use its money in spite of the will of the people all made possible by the idiotic divide between the economy and politics that has ravaged the world and placed so-called "leaders" in charge of Greece to afraid to default on their debts. Sure crisis will follow if they do so, but nothing can stop that. The debt is too much to pay and Greece's only real option is to make its financial systems as independent as possible before it does. But that won't change the rest of the world and the crisis will only create more opposition to Greece since it will be the easiest to target, which will create more war and what-have-you.

Nations shouldn't exist for this very reason since it allows capital to rule the world without any political oversight. Democracy is a sham, when foreign banks have control over your money. Governments are mere pawns, rising and falling to the whims of the "market". I don't see how any major change can happen that is centered within national boundaries. This pieces hints at this here:

The rapid rise of Podemos in Spain is proof that the same rebellious mood of indignation that manifested itself in the election of Syriza in Greece is developing in the rest of Europe. Precisely for that reason Rajoy has formed a bloc with Merkel to throttle Syriza before it has a chance to show in practice what a real anti-austerity programme looks like. A genuinely socialist foreign policy must base itself on the opposition movement that is developing in many European countries and that is looking to Greece for a courageous lead.

But even this assessment is mired by talk of Greece as a "courageous" leader which both resides on Greece as a nation and the idea of leadership which reminds me too much of the Soviet's idea of revolution. Even the end goal is not a collection of democratic people running their lives but of a theoretical "Socialist United States of Europe" which just shifts the national boundaries to Europe itself instead of any nation that now exists. Though all of this may be necessary given the current state of the world, it can have some very dramatic consequences if we are not diligent enough to recognize the poison of nationalism on which it is based.

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