http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/latuff_tsipras.jpgThe economic rationale of neoliberalism has been stripped away, and the project has been publicly unmasked for what it always was at heart: a system of planned impoverishment and technocratic domination, a negative morality designed to reward the strong and discipline the weak. As such, it has become increasingly obvious that the imposition of austerity on Greece is not a solution tailored to Greece's specific economic situation but is a general plan to be applied wherever the Eurozone's powers prevail. . . . Neoliberalism has probably never enjoyed so much power -- and yet so little support. The Eurozone leaders, who had long counted on the docility of their debtors, showed their capacity for and willingness to engage in economic violence in order to get their way. By threatening to make Greece's economy scream, they brought the dissident Tsipras to his knees and made a collaborator of him. But Greece's suffering and anger will only increase, and if it can no longer be channeled through SYRIZA, it will be expressed in other forms. SYRIZA's utter defeat, however, has allowed us to see how difficult it is for Greece to wage this battle on its own. For the past five months, we have been hoping for change to come to Greece. Greece has shown that it cannot fulfill those hopes without change elsewhere. The leaders of the Eurozone have shown that as long as they are in power, no change toward a decent Europe is possible. They've issued a challenge to every resident of Europe: remove them from office, or accept the generalization of humiliation and misery. The southeastern front has been overrun. But resistance could -- has to -- spread behind the established battle lines. When the Eurozone leaders return victorious from Greece, let's prepare their defeat at home.

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