http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/al_1.jpgSome like New Democracy serve the interests of capital directly through the monopolies and oligarchs, whilst parties like SYRIZA co-opt those disenfranchised by them to do the same. One side serves capital by operating under the promise of economic development at all costs, the other serves capital by promising a "fairer" redistribution of the intangible benefits. They are both fuelled by global capital and at most only look to fiscal policy as remedy. . . . These are all parties that insist on finding solutions for the problems of capitalist social and economic relations within capitalism itself. Rarely is policy communicated on anything other than an economic indicator. SYRIZA is neither radical nor left. SYRIZA was doomed to fail before it took power. History is not deterministic, but orientations within history are. . . . Most alarming, the forces of the popular struggle have been betrayed by the very political apparatus that claimed to represent them: it is only through the leadership of a party claiming the left mantle such as SYRIZA that the implementation of a third memorandum could ever be tolerated by a Greek electorate. After winning the referendum and mobilizing the largest contemporary demonstrations in modern Greek history, Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA have committed what can only be called a post-modern coup d'état: combining activist network organization with parliamentary and electoral deceit. The unique position of SYRIZA being in charge of implementing these agreements as a governing party of the left has eroded the capacity of large-scale mass mobilization to produce recognizable change within the political class of Greece up until this point. . . . What is needed is a change towards a new orientation, beyond the limited horizon of fiscal policy solutions. . . . Change in Greece will not come from short-term strategies and tactics of seeking power, but from a long process of coordinated and planned immanent critiques. This political organization will not aim to represent itself in the machinery of parliament -- where the watchful eyes of the IMF and ECB will determine policy -- but will emerge from an organized movement comprising the disenfranchised, the working class, and the intellectual vanguard. It will not compromise. It will instead operate under an ideology for an emancipatory alliance of humanity removed from the spreadsheet, removed from the NATO, and removed from free-market directives. It will not seek to claim power in an election, it will be given it by the people themselves when the movement is ripe.

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