[lbo-talk] Trapped by its own success?

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 12:19:55 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, July 8, 2015, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','123hop at comcast.net');>> wrote:


> That's weird he would think Tsripas anticipated a YES vote; that doesn't
> really make sense.
>


> It's hard to tell where Evans-Pritchard's speculating starts and his
> reporting starts, but sure it makes sense: Tsipras is the head of a
> political party, and political parties tend to want to stay in power. What
> better way for that to happen in this instance than for the citizens to
> vote for their own subsumption, which the ruling party can the implement as
> the people's representative.* I find all that more plausible than that
> he'd resign.


>
> *(Of course you'd have to count on people not remembering that the
> "European proposal" that everyone hated was substantially similar to one
> put forward by Syriza just a few weeks earlier.)



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