Review in the announcements of Alexis Tsipras exercises one of the names that have signed the founding declaration of EL.A.S.. The reason for the academic, Antonis Liakos, who initially commented on Alexis Tsipras' promise of free travel to the MMM while in a subsequent post, he targeted the general strategy of easy promises.
People judge “on the lion”
In his first post, Mr.Liakos wrote: "Those who use public transport (buses, trolleybuses, subway, electric, suburban) know very well, know experienced, how the problem is not at all the price of the ticket. They are the very sparse routes, the sardellization of passengers - which in peak hours cannot even be boarded, especially the sick, the miserable and unreliable transport conditions, cannot be breathed, the delays due to traffic on the roads, despite the highways. So what do they do with the announcement of free tickets and free travel? Only people who do not travel with public transport, possibly living in Psiloritis, could propose a similar announcement to Alexis Tsipras.
And if we wanted to go further to the right and ecological support of public transport, this very difficult to impossible to do, at least in land transport, with the number of IXs that are on the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki or are parked on the streets creating congestion.
If someone has a claim to say something meaningful and real, they must dare to say how at least a third of the cars should be removed from the cities. The minimum is, of course, how their ticket control machines will be recognized by tourists, but let us leave this to the point.
Also, when someone promises to abolish university exams, he needs to explain how to enter high - demand schools. Who recommends similar pronouncements on complex issues that cats know;
I support the Left Coalition's regrouping case, so I'm writing this. We said that The main issue of the Left today is credibility. And reliability is serious. Both small and large. For the world judges the lion by snyx...".
"I am programmatically against him for free. Why is it class’
The university professor, after his first post appears to have received several messages from his online friends who disagreed with what he wrote about public transport, so he returned with a new message explaining why he is "against him for free".
Characteristics wrote: "Many friends disagreed with what I wrote about public transport, and especially why I questioned the donation of a move in relation to radical improvement. Good because a debate is opening, which should have existed a long time ago.
The situation of transport in large cities and among the major cities in Greece is offensive to the dignity of those who use them, i.e. the popular strata. Expresses contempt. The rich are entitled to gliding vehicles and facilities. Poor people don't. That's what we need to start with. The claim of dignity. Whether they mock us with the cover of interceptions and OPEKEPE, or deprive us of the railway connection with Thessaloniki and Patras, or wait half an hour in rush hour for buses to pass through central arteries, and we cannot enter, all this ultimately expresses the contempt and arrogance of the elites. Those who see us with the glass of class difference and consider us worthy of our luck.
Besides, moving to Athens is getting worse and worse. And it will. From the condition of roads, pedestrians, parking, traffic, Athens is being completely suffocated in the coming years. Remember me in a few days with the heats. Greek modernism once dreamed of sleeping asty and produced a hell, and every two years we descend to its ranks.
What do we have instead? What do we have in place of a program, a proposal;
The elites have a proposal. They make another Athens on the Riviera, on the sea front in Saronico, centered in Latsoupoli, the city built in Greek. International city specifications.
But the rest of Athens? Anyone has a proposal for her except for free tickets.Free tickets to hell? No, thanks.
I'm programmed against him for free. Because it's class. Take the free in degraded sectors, and let us pay and enjoy. That's what it means. Free creates two-story societies. It's charity. The welfare state wasn't charity, it wasn't free, it wasn't just about the poor. We want total improvement and affordable on the same terms for everyone.
My comment on free tickets is about a policy method. Not in a detail. If we go left again, and we have to do it again, we cannot build it on pauperism policies.".
"Instead of claiming reforms we are begging for benefits"
In his new post, Antonis Liakos put in general against the strategy of easy promises likening left-hand benefits to the right-wing free pass while pointing out causticly how: "Instead of claiming reforms that will improve by changing our lives, we are begging benefits that leave them all the same“ It’s just that I’ve been thinking. ”
In particular, he wrote: “Benefits package or structural reforms?
There is no need for great scope to observe that both in Greece and abroad, both from the left parties and from the centre or centre right, a competition of packages of benefits develops around the elections. Exceptional allowances, passes of various types, exemptions, free of charge etc.The exhibition in Thessaloniki becomes the mother of benefits. What will he promise middle class, farmers, young people? The usual contradiction is the miserable question "how costly or not". Miserable and hypocritical why not ask about the giant tax exemptions but about the humble ticket of the even more miserable bus. And you have the crows who play it, "the economy can't afford such benefits". Do we look like the Roman mob? that every once in a while the emperor distributed him free ‘arton and spectacles’?
With benefits and benefits free pass, No matter how much they do gel to public opinion, no problem is solved at all. And it's still a degradation of civilian intelligence. Instead of claiming reforms that will improve by changing our lives, we are begging for benefits that leave them all the same.
Once the Left sought reforms. So long ago, social democracy. Then came the communists who said reforms perpetuate the system by improving it, so to overthrow it. Did a long period of disagreement surrounding the false dilemma Reform or Revolution follow? And after we broke our faces, at the time of Euro-Communism we were talking about "structural reforms", i.e. reforms that would change the system. Finally, these reforms were those which "freed" the labour market and capital markets, i.e. ended up on the "third road" (of neoliberalism). And so the popular strata left the left parties (social democratic and Euro-communist) which ended up parties of the middle classes that were told by reforms.
But now and after realizing that the plebeians left (as in Roman democracy) and to attract them back, the left parties discovered the benefit packages.
To the cliff and back stream. With benefits nothing changes, it's crumbs from the table.. With reforms, people don't get excited and go across.
But where are similar matters discussed? Movements are fragmented into small self-powered spheres and the second reading of politics, which one would expect from political scientists and sociologists, is limited to polls. We're all looking at the magic bullet in case he talks to us.
And what do we do until then? Obviously, we support the new project to regroup the Left, but not without awareness.".