Political collusion – THE STEP – 2024-07-01 02:55:22

The massive abstention within the European elections demonstrated the intense disaster of our consultant system. The election end result induced tremors throughout the first three events, extra intense within the progressive opposition events. Face modifications will not be sufficient. The foremost drawback is that the political employees of the progressive events are unable to grasp the modifications which have taken place lately and to learn the actual financial, social and cultural situations of the current. The stormy debt disaster of the last decade 2010-2019 was an intersection within the post-political continuity. It induced political fluidity, modified social gathering geography and political energy relations, modified social norms and attitudes.

The rescue insurance policies of the nation, which had been carried out by all the federal government directors of the memorandums, induced excessive social and institutional prices, as they entailed the wild degradation of incomes, values, properties and democratic norms. The lenders’ inspiration for the violent inner devaluation was paid for by the nation and the progressives. Not the Proper, i.e. the social gathering of chapter, as a result of the residents can perceive the train of arduous conservative insurance policies by the conservative faction, however they don’t count on such a factor from the forces of the other political spectrum. Within the society’s notion, ideological labels misplaced their which means, since everybody practiced the identical rescue insurance policies. The extra particular nationwide picture was added to the overall picture of the social democratic events, which made their positions from the mid-90s extra market-friendly.

The flattening of variations and the ensuing political apathy and alienation, situations that match the postmodern worldview, represent a strong conservative backlash. That’s the reason in Greece, not solely did the Proper return to energy, the ideological axis of Greek society shifted to the best on the identical time.

Progressive forces must deliver again ideological labeling to the general public debate, and for this to occur, it’ll take painstaking effort and ingenuity to form their political identification. If neoliberalism has subordinated Democracy and social must the wishes of the markets, the triumphant return of democratic socialists and leftists will probably be achieved once they present programmatically find out how to “repair” the markets for the advantage of social wants, justice and Democracy.

Progressive forces have but to work out a brand new concept of the social alliances they are going to depend on to turn out to be a political majority. Alliances not horizontal. Alliances of artistic social forces that settle for a selected program of progressive reform and alter. Solely on this approach will political depth be given to the connection between society and progressive political our bodies.

The reconstruction of the progressive house will probably be achieved and a brand new progressive majority will emerge, when the identification of the progressive is outlined, when it turns into doable once more to learn ideological variations, when apathy and individualism are defeated, when historic reminiscence meets the current and light-weight it up It’s the second when the progressive forces will discover themselves in a situation of political synastry, the sunshine of which, subtle on the horizon, will outline the start of the brand new period.

Mr. Haris Kastanidis he’s a former minister, a member of the Political Council of the PASoK.