{"id":3579,"date":"2026-05-01T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:44:00","slug":"tsipras-manifesto-the-left-of-centre-and-the-four-corners-of-the-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"Tsipras&#8217; &#8220;manifesto&#8221;, the &#8220;left of centre&#8221; and the four corners of the triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And there was the &#8220;manifesto&#8221; &#8211; not ours, the good one &#8211; of <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>, suggesting a <b>a pageant contest with a bit of ideological mischief. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The much-hyped &#8220;manifesto&#8221;, which some have attempted to present as an intervention in the country&#8217;s political scene and an ideological bosom, was released <b>reminiscent of something from the pageant&#8217;s wishes for world peace, health and joy around the world,<\/b>combined with a revolutionary logic that <b>refers to Syriza before 2015. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alexis Tsipras&#8217;s cadres presented an essay of ideas &#8211; albeit reminiscent of an elementary school essay &#8211; in a <b>desperate attempt to convince that something new is coming when the party is announced. <\/b>The phrase <b>&#8220;left of center&#8221;<\/b>says it all since it actually means nothing. Of course there are many there in Alexis&#8217;s lairs who have such ideas, maybe they are some of those who had called the &#8220;troika&#8221; &#8220;institutions&#8221; to show that something changed in 2015 when they took power. <\/p>\n<p>From there, it&#8217;s interesting that <b>they managed to find four corners to the&#8230; triangle.<\/b> Why do we say that? Because the head of the group that drafted the &#8220;manifesto&#8221; &#8211; Tsipras&#8217;, not ours &#8211; George Siakandaris in 2017 was writing to convince that <b>it is not possible for social democracy and the radical left to co-operate,<\/b>even though ecology has now entered the game. <\/p>\n<p>He wrote, for example, in 2017 in liberal.gr that &#8220;to ask for the social democracy of compromise to be radical is like the alchemist seeking to make gold from non-precious metals. <b>And to ask for it to be leftist is like trying to convince that the triangle has four corners.&#8221; <\/b><\/p>\n<p>And he added: &#8220;This is social democracy a la Rasoulis, <b>&#8216;now Buddha, now Cudas, now Jesus and Judas&#8217;<\/b>&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p>Other times, other morals, one might say. Perhaps, but really anyone who reads this &#8220;manifesto&#8221; &#8211; not ours again &#8211; will understand that an attempt is being made to present the ruling left &#8211; the one that will come again and be different, as one soul used to say, but which will be left on the outside &#8211; as <b>something different and more&#8230; expanded. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise: as has already been shown, <b>the same Alexis with the same words and the same intentions&#8230; <\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    And there was the &#8220;manifesto&#8221; &#8211; not ours, the good one &#8211; of Alexis Tsipras, which is reminiscent of a beauty contest with a bit of ideological mischief&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}