{"id":11060,"date":"2013-05-24T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2013-05-24T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:26:06","slug":"11060","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/05\/24\/11060\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017d Syriza Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

6th Subversive festival<\/a>
\n15 May, 2013.\u00a0 Alexis Tsipras and Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, The Role of the European Left<\/em> Moderator: Sre\u0107ko Horvat
\n\u017di\u017eek starts here<\/a>
\nIf Syriza wins nothing will be the same.\u00a0 Al Gore that dummy, everyone expected him to win, \u201cI am the guy who once was the future American President\u201d\u00a0 All history will be read as pointing towards the Syriza victory.\u00a0\u00a0 If Syriza wins and does something it will be the end of the old Europe.\u00a0 The very soul of Europe will change.
\nRadical egalitarianism, radical democracy this is at the core of European identity and this is at stake today.\u00a0 Brussels technocrats, anti-immigrant fascists they are the true threat to Europe.\u00a0 You have economic neo-liberalism combined with anti-immigrant populism, this is not Europe.\u00a0 Syriza stands for Europe, what Europe stands for, not just the marginals etc.
\nSyriza is the voice of true reason and moderation, the dangerous experimenters are in power, what is attributed to Syriza is what the Euro-technocrats are doing. asdf
\n\u017di\u017eek pt 2<\/a>
\nAfter 1968, capitalism welfare state wasn’t in total crisis. While today the systemic crisis is here, so return to social democratic welfare state is not the solution, for all our sympathies for Latin America, we can’t simply follow the Latin American way.
\nAlliances, I’m not fascinated with Tahir Sq.\u00a0 What about the morning after<\/a> What will your victory mean in the lives of ordinary people when life returns back to nomral.\u00a0 Its a question of intelligent alliances.\u00a0 Its not simple redistribution, since for a couple decades we’ll still live within capitalism. In the old commie days, patriotic bourgeoisie, genuine interest to produce for the people, its not just strike at the rich, but a carefully planned strategy, competition, small level prod’n of consumerist goods.\u00a0 Crazy as it will sound, a dream of what Syriza will be, within global distribution, should make life easier for truly productive capitalists, its the link with State clientelism with international banks, this is bad even for productive capitalist classes.\u00a0 If you are a good honest capitalist you can still vote for us.
\nGolden Dawn<\/a> one aspect of unfortunately a trend all around Europe.\u00a0 Croatia and Slovenia the discourse is changing, in the last decades there is a subtle re-writing of WWII.\u00a0 It wasn’t simply that the good side one, a subtle rehabilitation of soft fascism.\u00a0 Things that were unthinkable in Europe 30 years ago are back, before fascists were not tolerated.
\nBanking System<\/a> Today’s economy needs banks.\u00a0 Not Wall St. but Main St.\u00a0 too simplistic.\u00a0 If you look really closely how indebted countries works, this structure of debts, 80% of money is speculative money.\u00a0 Iceland, a couple of private speculators ruined everything.\u00a0 Simply in the interests of capitalist production, the ongoing global banking system cannot do its function, a more popular democratic banking system is necessary simply for capitalist prod’n to survive.\u00a0 Syriza should not just a crazy leftist solution, but make it a better bourgeois state.\u00a0 You will have to do, what capitalist ruling class could not do themselves.<\/p>\n

\u017di\u017eek pt 3<\/a> If you want to have a real popular mobilization beyond, above the standard bureacratic politics, you need a charismatic leader look at Chavez, there are genuine charismatic leaders that are not Stalin.\u00a0 Its first time in my life I’m accused of being a social democrat.\u00a0 The so-called Stalinist State Socialism was also a catastrophe.\u00a0 I don’t believe that local forms of self-organization, have the potential to universalize themselves.\u00a0 I am shameless saying back to Marx from Hegel, we have to re-invent the state.\u00a0 I’m totally opposed to John Holloway, who said I was in Greece, a park was proclaimed a liberated zone, entrance prohibited to capitalism.\u00a0 that’s crazy.\u00a0 This idea of some type of immediate self-transparent direct democracy. \u00a0 I don’t like enthusiastic moments, where after you have nostalgic moments, then your phone rings I have to go back to the bank my boss is calling.\u00a0 When the enthusiasm is over I want the Left to change things at the everyday common-sense level. \u00a0 Don’t fall in love with enthusiastic moments.\u00a0 It lasts for 2 months. \u00a0 I’m not talking about bourgeois state, we should re-invent these large scale mechanisms.
\n\u017di\u017eek pt 4<\/a> The old Ricardo dream, you will get the good function of money.\u00a0\u00a0 There are differences up and down but I don’t believe there was a Golden Era.\u00a0 American Leftists it was the 1950s, I’m skeptical.\u00a0 Argentinian cooperatives, I’m skeptical.\u00a0 Latin American countries like to point out factories taken over by workers, but re-visit the same factories a year later.\u00a0 You can’t universalize the cooperatives.\u00a0 Maurizio Lazzarato’s book The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition<\/em> did something very important.\u00a0 Capitalism can less and less globally afford even these formal freedoms.\u00a0 What I like in Lazzarato’s work, all the ideological networks that make us accept this form of slavery, the universalization of capitalism, in a way a different levels we are all capitalists.\u00a0 Aren’t you acting as a self-entrepreneur, we are all capitalists.\u00a0 As all efficient forms of ideology, if I decide to economize and invest in education, am I not treating myself as object of investment, this change of everyday attitudes, everyday forms perceived as apolitical.\u00a0 Ideology which matters is everyday, how you preceive your everyday situation.\u00a0 Never underestimate the power of ideology today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6th Subversive festival 15 May, 2013.\u00a0 Alexis Tsipras and Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, The Role of the European Left Moderator: Sre\u0107ko Horvat \u017di\u017eek starts here If Syriza wins nothing will be the same.\u00a0 Al Gore that dummy, everyone expected him to win, \u201cI am the guy who once was the future American President\u201d\u00a0 All history will be … Continue reading “\u017d Syriza Greece”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}