Today’s post by Nikos Karanika on Facebook is about the “manifesto” of Alexis Tsipras. He appears particularly caustic, raising legitimate concerns.

Summarily, Nikos Karanikas argues that:

  • The text in question was written by academics cut off from society and not by a collective party.
  • The essence of the Left is missing, as there is no explicit reference to socialism, class conflict and oligarchs.
  • neoliberalism and irregularities are presented superficially or downplayed.
  • The approach to social democracy is limited to power management, with no mention of acquisition and labor movement.
  • The political ecology is treated without any meaningful reference to environmental issues such as mining or development limits.
  • There is acceptance of technocratic models, such as Independent Authorities, associated with neoliberalism.
  • No clear position is taken on wealth concentration and taxation of powerful economic actors.
  • In the international arena, it denounces a selective attitude, especially on the Middle East.

He concludes that the “manifesto” is more an attempt at rebranding than a substantive policy proposal.

His full statement

Tsipras Manifesto:
The New Governing Rapture.
When you appoint academics to replace the collective intellectual that is a democratic collective party, which as we know is the result of social processes and not the pariah of the salon, then it is logical that they write several pages of blather invalidating the disputed issue and impressing the leftist populists who need it.

From the left they have cancelled the strategy of socialism. But left without socialism what kind of left is it?
And since there is no socialism it makes sense that there are no oligarchs and class confrontation.

For Rebranding Tsipras there is no such thing as Neoliberalism as a way of managing and administering the productive world that generates new inequalities.

But there are some inequalities that were discovered apparently by accident by the luminary academics of his institute and they are a literary construction that arose for reasons unknown and are not a social political situation for the dreaded excellent sociologist academic who coordinated the writing of the manifesto.

For the salon academics, neoliberalism and inequality only exists literarily and is a demagogy for sensationalism and without substance.
The Tsipras academics are politically ignorant not to mention funny a la Kundera.

Salon academics and socially illiterate and that’s why the digital age has no data – data producing wealth power control and oligarch billionaires in platform capitalism. In other words, the left is absent from the coalition.

From social democracy the luminaries have cancelled the market and the labour movement because they simply don’t know that it is one of its key features.
The ruling social democracy they only know, they kept it. They were taught it by Costas Simitis. The Great University of the Interconnection. Liguria of power.

Tsipras and his academics want to be a ruling left like the pasok but they can’t say it because people prefer the genuine ones.
They cancelled political ecology or didn’t know as they didn’t study it as it seems they didn’t study the circular economy and the criticism of mining.

The academics of the institute did not read anywhere that development without limits affects the environment and therefore they do not touch the issue and touch political ecology demagogically.
Logical since for the Coalition it is an oligarch who alone with his money made his own party and called it “World” saying it belongs to political ecology.
Will the academics at Tsipras’ IX institute chew the fat?
Don’t see academic and oligarch Tsipras… run. Rebranding it is called?
Now let’s go to the rest of the “manifesto”.

It is obvious that the appointed academics have not studied and do not know what Neoliberalism is and therefore they propose to preserve the way the state is run by generalizing the Independent Administrative Authorities considering them to be a guarantee. Indeed they are a guarantee but for the banks.
They don’t know since they didn’t study it seems that ADA is the basic principle of Neoliberalism.
It is a principle that devalues democracy, parliament and politics & favours appointed technocrats who are accountable and follow the dominant policy.

The Tsipras academics tell us in their excellent Greek that they don’t want neoliberalism and stress that they love the commons, the public goods.
But they don’t tell us whether the public goods will be owned by the public as goods for social use or as economicized units with shares in the hands of oligarchs and with stock market values as Neoliberalism demands.

It’s amazing that so many academics sweated for so many days thinking and writing and finally didn’t say a word about the fact that there are oligarchs accumulating wealth at the expense of society.
There is no taxation of them there is no such inequality.
Alone, to insult Melissanidis, Vardinoyannis, Savvidis, Marinakis….Their home? And what headline will the Tsipras newspaper make about Tsipras if the Tsipras Institute speaks ill of the oligarchs? Let’s get serious.

A little further down a little further up they demagogically denounce the policy that wants technocrats and Tsipras himself got us academics to write a socio-political document that has something to do with the government of the country.

Can I comment that Tsipras and his appointed academics are talking about a war as it suits them;
The war in the middle east and the bombing of Lebanon that entire manifesto has no mention of Israel, while Israel itself says it is bombing Lebanon because Lebanon adopts Hezbollah and does not hide it instead as a defensive state as it says it defends it.
But the luminous academics with their subservient Tsipras have not seen it.
They are mocking us without shame.
Their academic colleague Harry Frankfurt is right to say that this is bullshit and unmitigated bluster that avoids the truth and is demagoguery.

Their minds are on the “ruling left” as a rapist and this has been confirmed by the Tsipras appointed academics at the institute who while ignorant are unscrupulous and unashamedly accepted the role given to them by the power-desperate Tsipras.
They put the left, social democracy and political ecology in 8000 words. They succeeded.

But I’m sure they were impressed by the work of academics his followers who come from the left and even if their New Compass doesn’t have leftist in it.
I’m sure they see it but are indifferent as decadence has these characteristics.

A different left without oligarchs, without institutes and institutions of socially illiterate academics and dependent on oligarchs, but also away from demagoguery, anti-right and empyrean syndromes is possible and must emerge democratically equally free and independent of political black money.

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