The left in Greece continues to exist because the junta existed. If there had been no junta, it would have disappeared long ago. After all, that is what happened in every country after the collapse of non-existent socialism in 1990. Greece continues to be an exception. For how long, one wonders?

Because of the junta, the left was sanctified as resistance. In addition, for fifty years it has continued to fight against an imaginary junta. Indeed, in order not to end up in a psychiatric hospital because no real junta exists, the left calls legally elected governments a junta. The repeated slogan is characteristic: «The junta did not end in 1974». All this is done so that it has a reason to exist.

In addition, the left exists because it is the main support of the parasitic class and the parasitic state. Indeed: «Unfortunately, in Greece, the left-wing parties of Parliament are the genuine representatives of the class interests of the parasitic petty bourgeoisie, as well as of the other parasitic classes mentioned above. Some parties do this consciously and others unconsciously...

»And so that I am not misunderstood, the extra-parliamentary parties are even greater servants of this parasitic and state-fed bourgeois class of Greece. As for the so-called anarchist and "terrorist" organisations, they are the mature children of the upper parasitic social classes, people in their thirties who have never sweated in workplaces, except for the exercise they did in expensive private gyms where they went from childhood and which their parents paid for with stolen money. A wall slogan in Exarchia read "fire to the villas of the northern suburbs". If they burn them, many of them will also burn their childhood bedrooms. At least let them manage to take their teddy bears. Have you really seen them vandalise the most expensive suburbs of Athens? Never. They live there» (Grigoris Papanikos).

Therefore, it is no coincidence that the left caresses all these «good children» of the ruling class: rioters, anarchists and terrorists. And some naive citizens continue to believe in a left that supposedly supports the lower classes.

In any case, history and experience confirm that many leftists become right-wing. By contrast, very few right-wing people become left-wing. Why does this happen? Because those who are not enlisted, those who are free citizens, when they discover the real face of the left, that is, of communism, turn 180 degrees. By contrast, those who are enlisted continue on their left-wing path.

Many left-wing figures later regretted having devoted their lives to futile struggles for a totalitarian ideology. One of the most characteristic cases is Takis Lazaridis, who in his book «Fortunately We Were Defeated, Comrades» explains those futile struggles. The same view was expressed by the historic leader of the left, Leonidas Kyrkos, who in his political testament stated: «A clash of ideas, not violence and intolerance, leads nowhere».

Also, left-wing parties, when they come to power, become right-wing. The SYRIZA government taught us this as well. Ideology is one thing and reality is another. If they do not adapt to reality, they collapse; they have no hope of survival.

That is, left-wing parties speak left and act right. Words are used to persuade citizens, while actions are used to survive. Of course, this logic, saying one thing and doing another, is blatant mockery of citizens. And citizens do not tolerate mockery. That is why they have turned their backs on left-wing parties.

Left-wing parties, even when they lose power, continue to lie and deceive the people. For example, they speak about obstacles placed by the establishment, about the many works they supposedly carried out, about the difficult circumstances and so on.

In conclusion: the left is the support of the parasitic class and the parasitic state. The left collapsed throughout the world when non-existent socialism collapsed. In Greece it continues to exist because it continues to fight against an imaginary junta and to deceive the people.

Pavlos Marantos

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