The KKE with attack the government with familiar rhetoric about “overthrowing”, but recycling slogans with no realistic proposal for the country.
With its familiar, harsh and absolute rhetoric,KKE chooses to label “miserable” government policy, attempting to capitalize on dissatisfaction with economic pressure and the cost of living. However, behind the heavy complaints about “taxes“, “bloody plevenues” and “definitive reversal“, the party’s longstanding inability to move from complaint to proposal is once again highlighted. The insistence on an ideological narrative of conflictwith everything and everyone does not seem to answer the real issues of economy, growth and stability, but rather to trap the party itself in a vicious circle of political self-sufficiency.
The KKE has rediscovered the “miserable politics” of the government. Only, as is usually the case, the complaint says more about the complainant than about its target.
The constant invocation of “subversion”
With expressions like “bloody surpluses” and “tax hikes”, the party attempts to describe a picture of universal disaster, conspicuously ignoring that the economy operates in a specific European and international framework, with rules, balances and obligations. The easy rhetoric of conflict may serve ideological purity, but it does not produce policy.
Even more problematic is the constant invocation of “subversion”. Subversion of what, in what terms and with what plan? On these questions the KKE is ostentatiously silent. For it is one thing to call for a struggle and another to present a workable proposal for governance in a complex economy.
The insistence on a narrative where “business groups”, “armaments” and the system as a whole are to blame for everything ultimately leads to a political monologue that is unconvincing beyond a narrow audience. And as long as the KKE remains locked into this logic, it will confirm the characterization that it ascribes to itself: not of the government, but of its own political presence.
For the real misery in politics is not the pursuit of difficult policies in a demanding environment. It is the refusal to propose anything realistic and limiting oneself to slogans that have been repeated for decades without impact.
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