By Con George-Kotzabasis September 23, 2016
My short reply to a political theorist of the Jurgen Habermas School of
Critical Theory
It is rather surprising to see a votary of Jurgen
Habermas in using an analytic blunted tool that leads to the false inference
that malevolent Europeans wilfully imposed upon Greece austerity measures to
punish it. The truth is, that these measures were saddled upon Greece as a
result of a consumer’s binge and an exuberance of public spending, fuelled, by
a profusion of borrowed funds which inevitably pushed Greece into the quagmire
of bankruptcy. Austerity therefore and the economic structural changes imposed
on the country were a remedy, not a penalty, for the self-inflicted ills that
past government policies, mainly of Pasok, engendered.
My question is, why you have not mentioned anything of
the pledges, that Kyriakos Mitsotakis had made in his speech at the Exhibition
of Thessalonica last Saturday, with their great potential to pull Greece out of
its long economic crisis. In my opinion, a government, under the strong and
astute leadership of Mitsotakis, will pull Greece out of its immiseration—as
the Samaras government was close in achieving. An immiseration that the totally
inept Tsipras government is exacerbating, with its historically obsolete
neo-Marxist fixations and panaceas.