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I just did. I see the KKE as a defunct remnant of bourgeoisie communism posing as a vanguardist party which will only start to become slightly revolutionary if they can entirely control the revolutionary movement. The KKE is the main obstacle in creating a revolutionary movement which consists of the many revolutionary factions active in Greece.
But as it stands...I still vividly remember what the KKE did to Trotskyists and Anarchists during the protests in the 80's and 90's....doing the cops work. In fact...it was the KKE who once published ad article claiming they themselves prefered to maintain the curent status quo until the time was right to take leadership over the revolutionary movement.
Now they pretend to be the revolutionary alternative. Don't make me laugh. The KKE killed the revolutionary movement. They are tools in the hands of the current system...and wit their actions created organisations like SYRIZ and Antarsya.
Again, which are these "many revolutionary functions" and what is the revolutionary movement they want to create, which are its targets?
Be as descriptive as possible, I'm living in Greece and haven't noticed them.
As I said, the only kind of movement we had that was seperate from the "old-fashioned" labor movement, were
the indignant ones, the ones you claim
were ready to take over the parliament and... I guess do something with it.
But they didn't fail. They have succeded in every one of their aims.
They have succeeded in making the whole thing a "Greece vs Germany" standoff. They have succeeded in making the whole crisis seem like a result of "poor negotiation" either because our politicians are puppets of the Jews or because they are corrupt and Germany has their political carreers under control.
They have succeded in convincing everyone that what we need is "a strongman", a "leader", someone who will arrive in Brussels and get everyone to start paying huge amounts of money to Greece with no strings attached. They've convinced the country that this is how the world works and became in a way the movement that ended all movements, the movement that erased class struggle when so many dictatorships couldn't.
And they've unfortunately succeeded in one last thing. In having their main representatives (Syriza, Antarsya, Independent Greeks, the nazis) remain outside of office and thus able to continue spewing the same nonsense over and over again. That move was especially brilliant in fact.
So why are you complaining? The movement that you say was blocked by the KKE, was only blocked physically when it tried to murder people. It wasn't blocked ideologically though, it became as dominant as few ideas have ever become.
Should the communist party be very critical of itself that it wasn't in a better position to fight it? Should it be angry with itself that it wasn't
a 100 times more vigilant when these ideas first appeared? Surely.
But those days are gone and those lessons are learnt.
Now what? Now is when I ask your help in trying to understand how to change people's minds.
There is a guy here that says he'll negotiate our way out of the crisis. There are some other people that claim our life has worsened because of the euro, and not because of a capitalist crisis. That if we had drachma we could actually be earning more and capitalists -who would still own their property, their factories- would happily invest!
These people call themselves leftists, some call themselves revolutionary leftists. And you're writing here not to criticize them but to say instead that the communist party should be doing more to
unify the fragmented revolutionary left.
Explain your thinking to me because as I said, I am at a complete and utter loss. It's disheartening really, believe me.