Octavian Lupu

March 14

Eu unul nu mi-am pierdut speranta. Chiar daca deocamdata este 1-0 pentru Merkel. “Greece, Europe’s weakest link, could become the strongest link of the European left,” Moulopoulos says. If not Greece, then perhaps Spain. Both together would not be too much, however, to combat the fear and despair that feeds far-right propaganda and jihadist nihilism. “It’s a modest and crazy dream,” as poet Louis Aragon wrote. The hope is that European politics ceases to condemn us to the merry-go-round on which the same people succeed each other in power, and pursue the same policies with the same impotence. Their record has become our threat. In Athens and Madrid, a change of course at long last?

A modest and crazy dream - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain offer a chance at change in Europe's politics, possibly the...

MONDEDIPLO.COM

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  Prospectiv A-z .
  Un articol de zile mari, care lasa cititorului sarcina de a trage concluziile--nu-i un stil chiar strain/diferit de cel al unor prospectivi.
  
  OK, s-o luam cu inceputul:
  
  1) The French left declared a political truce — the Union Sacrée — in August 1914, agreeing not to oppose the government during the war. In France and Germany, the workers’ movement faltered, trade union and other leftwing leaders rallied to the “national defence” and progressive battles were put aside. It would have been hard to do otherwise when, from the start of the conflict, the death toll was in the tens of thousands. Who would have been able to hear talk of peace above the fighting and nationalist rhetoric? Yet up until that June, perhaps even July, it was still possible to challenge them. 
  
  Acest paragraf este de pus in rama. Arata mecanismul suspendarii logicii politico-democratice la nivel national in favoarea instinctelor. Acum ni se perinda prin fatza tot felul de pericole si agitari, care de prea multe ori reusesc sa distraga atentia dela conditia omului obisnuit: intotdeauna-platnic pentru greselile sale si CATSTROFELE elitelor. 
  
  2) Moulopoulos believes that “without European support, it will not be possible to do anything at all.” That is why Syriza accords importance to support from forces beyond the radical left and the Greens, in particular the Socialists. Yet the Greeks have had experience of the surrenders made by social democracy since Andreas Papandreou forced his party to make a major shift towards neoliberalism 30 years ago. “If he had stayed on the left, there would have been no Syriza,” says Moulopoulos. “In Germany too, when Oskar Lafontaine resigned from the government [in 1999], he expressed regret that social democracy had become incapable of even the most insignificant reforms. Globalisation and neoliberalism with a human face completely destroyed it.” 
  
  Zilele trecute, dl. Kovacs se/ne intreba cum a fost posibil dezastrul in Romania. Iata cum s-a intamplat si la case mai mari. Singura consolare a nemtzalailor de pe strada este ca le e mai bine decat grecilor/sudicilor/etc. In lipsa lor de finetze, remarcata de germani valorisi cel putin dela Nietzsche incoace, ei nu inteleg ca le e mult mai rau decat cum le era pana in anul 2000, sa zicem.
  
  3) Grecii au inventat democratia acum cca. 2500 ani. Poate ca e timpul s-o aduca la zi; desigur, sunt la fel de increzator in prospectele lor ca in cele ale nativilor Sarajevoului dupa 1914.

  
  
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  Octavian Lupu Excelent ca de obicei.