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>The leftist agenda has been to portray Greece as a victim of capitalism and/or neoliberalism. This was mostly dispelled by facts, and I rarely see this kind of
by ravingraven 8y ago
>The leftist agenda has been to portray Greece as a victim of capitalism and/or neoliberalism. This was mostly dispelled by facts, and I rarely see this kind of propaganda in 2018.
It was both capitalist governments that created the crisis and capitalist governments that tried to remedy it (no government has moved away from a market economy and privatizations since the late 80ies, including SYRIZA). We Greeks are 100% absolutely right to blame capitalism and/or neoliberalism. It was a capitalist/neoliberal system that created the crisis and a capitalist/neoliberal idea (austerity) that utterly failed to remedy it (it has been almost 20 years since the crisis and there is not an end in sight).
- ekianjo 8y ago> It was a capitalist/neoliberal system that created the crisis You don't seem to realize there is such thing as "personal responsibility". Nobody forced the Greeks to borrow way more money than they could ever hope to repay. The Greek government created its own problem and hoped to get away with it. There's no world where you can make it the fault of someone else.
- ravingraven 8y ago>There's no world where you can make it the fault of someone else. I never said that. The Greeks voted for such a system, I never said they didn't. But you can't say that this "leftist agenda" as you call it is wrong. It is the system that we had/have (and voted for, sure) that created and failed to solve the problem. Any leftists with this agenda are not wrong. No one in Greece is trying to shift the blame (except for some fringe conspiracy theorists from the extreme right). That Greeks are looking for someone to blame is a popular EU myth.