European and especially Greek leaders are playing with the fire. Every day they prove they are myopic dummies in the conscious or unconscious service of banks. There is no other way to describe the constantly increasing madness of European and Greek politics, which is the most certain evidence of the coming major catastrophe.
The Eurogroup decisions- made with the participation of the Greek Government (both terms actually need quotation marks)- constitute an institutional coup, unprecedented in the history of the EU. The euro cabinet ordered an elected parliament what to vote. This is a strict violation of the fundamental principles of the European Union against its political base, set of laws, and ideology.
Greek members of the parliament are blackmailed to vote against the will of the Greek people but according to the desires of banks. Those desires have been disguised by the EU and the Greek administration into a “lending” to Greece. The Union is revealed as - not being a union of the European nations but - a mechanism of implementing the Market dictatorship to the European nations. That is happening with the contribution of Germany, the European Commission, and the Central European Bank. The worst is that none in Greece or in Europe seems to realize and refer to the meaning and the implications of what is happening.
The endless lending and the new extreme austerity measures will lead to the collapse of the system. The Greek people in order to survive and defend their country have no other way but to reject this policy. Even if Greeks do not do that, it is obvious that at some point in time the revenue to the state will stop and even the elementary state operations will collapse. That will lead the country in an anarchy bankruptcy and chaotic conditions.
Apparently, it would be a lot better if we could find the political forces capable of leading the nation during those crucial moments. It would be a lot better if we had a front against the Memorandum for the salvation of Greece with a reliable leadership, democratic internal organization, and effective ideas. However, confronting the Memorandum and the group of the austerity measures which are a combined program of economic, social, and national disaster, we just can’t wait.
Banks as a means of authoritarianism.
There is another aspect beyond the democratic essence which is severely hurt by the Eurogroup decisions and blackmail. Why do European and Greek politicians blackmail the Greek people? For the acceptance of a program that everybody believes will lead Greece fast, not to any kind of salvation, but into a complete bankruptcy.
They treat a whole country – member of the EU in the same way a lending bank treats a firm which is about to go bankrupt. Place of commissioners; mortgage of the buildings; reduction of the operational costs with redundancies and salary cuts; liquidation of assets; and finally the company’s closing down.
Why do they do that? Not because it is necessary for the right EU’s interests, not even the interests of the richest country-members. Not because they can’t realize the deadlock. The answer is because it is impossible to harm in any way the interests of the international financial status. Financial institutions which act as a State behind the States. In that way, they bring Europe to the biggest crisis in its history after World War II. They risk the chance all these mistakes to explode against all of us. This time the war is not going to be military but financial - at least at the beginning - but with the same devastating results.
Today, Hitler’s role as a world devastating power is played by the international financial capitalistic system. If we keep on going where they want us to go, the whole postwar European paradigm will be threatened with a collapse and the world economy may face a crisis much more severe than that of 1929. Because contemporary economies are a lot more financialized than the ones before the War.
EU dismantle scenario
It may sounds as exaggerated. Truly, it would be stupid if someone tries to accurately foresee the progress of three simultaneous profound crises. I.e. the world financial crisis, the crisis of the Western leadership, and the crisis in the EU. However, it is ten times more times more stupid, anyone who denies realizing the true aftermath. It is better to act even “excessively” against existing threats, rather than to be relieved with the false confidence of a world (which in fact collapses). The world of Happy Globalization and liberalism has collapsed in October 2008.
The European Union is threatened with a collapse similar with that of the Soviet Union twenty years ago. Neither its political leadership, nor its institutions are made to satisfactorily serve and act for the benefit of general Europe or European countries.
Its structure has been mainly formed to provide a strong back up to the value and the outcome of money. Simultaneously, it does not take into consideration the interests of nations and societies. This structural “shortage” makes more important the role of the national governments, which have become the only ones that can defend the vital benefits of their people.
Greece as a catastrophe factor
The Papandreou administration - by not defending its nation and acting as a colonial management placed by troika – definitely contributes to the disaster of Greece and a chaos in Europe.
In order to get out from that situation, Greece needs to utilize a big argument – weapon. It can aggressively negotiate and threaten with a bankruptcy and the following political crisis in the EU.
The uprising
Unfortunately, a huge part of the active Greek citizens or the current political leaders (of the opposition) are still locally focused and just can’t think in international terms. Their psychological background is affected by conservatism (Europe doesn’t change) and a national underestimation. We should try to correlate the fight of the Greek people against the coming financial authoritarianism with the problems and the consciousness of the European people. We should try - as much as we can- our demands to build the necessary international alliances. So far very few have been done towards that direction and the time is ticking away. Tomorrow we can have an uprising in Greece but almost no one in the world will be able to understand what the rebels are proposing.
