The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Monday, January 26, 2015

An echo in Spain

Syriza victory cheers Podemos

Since its creation one year ago, Podemos has emerged as a top contender, with polls consistently showing it, the People’s party and the Socialists earning 20 – 30% of the vote each.

Syriza and, for that matter, Podemos, it seems, are not really anti-Euro or anti-Europe.

They are not, so far as I know, anti-immigration.

They are opposed to a Europe dominated by the right, by the banks, by the plutocracy, and by Germany.

They say they want a democratic Europe of the people.

But in reality that may be more any oxymoronic dream than an achievable political goal.

The European left has never been happy with the democracy deficit of Brussels and the de facto control of the EU by Berlin, far more than the popularly supposed Berlin-Paris axis.

If the Germans, the bankers, and the establishment that control the EU won't let it be democratized and won't budge from austerity the left, even in France, may yet decide to scuttle an EU that is no more than a tool of neoliberalism.

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