Austerity Unbroken
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- Published on Wednesday, 27 January 2016 23:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1214 .... January 28, 2016
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Austerity Unbroken
Jannis Milios interviewed by Alp Kayserilioğlu
Much coverage of the Greek debt crisis has focused on the ‘troika’ of international creditors and German chancellor Angela Merkel -- a striking image of parasitic foreign powers scapegoating the country for personal gain.
In some corners of the Left, this narrative has fueled the demand for ‘Grexit’ (a Greek exit from the eurozone) under the impression that such a move would create a more favorable environment for a break with austerity. This animated the Left Platform's disagreements with Syriza's bargaining-table approach and their later metamorphosis into Popular Unity.
Jannis Milios, once Syriza's chief economic adviser, aligns neither with Syriza nor with Popular Unity. He views Syriza's current program as a reversal of its original... radical one. Yet his alternative to Greek president Alexis Tsipras's approach is not Grexit, but a confrontation with Greece's domestic capitalists. Athens-based journalist Alp Kayserilioğlu recently sat down with Milios to discuss the history of Syriza, the purpose of the eurozone, and the power of the country's domestic bourgeoisie.