Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 38

6 On the Greek experiences
2. The Greek people are not the debtors. They are pushed into the
debtor’s role by historical life-lies of capitalism. As we have seen
there is no democracy in capitalism. The nation states do not belong
to the peoples. They are basically oligarchic upper class instruments
to safeguard their world. As everywhere so in Greece. The true debt-
ors are those who issue bad state bonds, waste funds for non-
productive projects and private enterprises, keep the surpluses by tax
evasion, get through by corruption, and finally blame the Greek peo-
ple of living beyond their means.
3. Therefore the policy of a Greek people’s government should con-
centrate on domestic affairs in order to …
a. investigate thoroughly into the system of state corruption, oligar-
chic finance spiders amidst their networks,
b. make publicly and Europe wide known the names, offences and
international connections and activities of the Greek loan embez-
zlers,
c. compel them to pay back the debt money out of their private
property and give the peculate money back to the creditors,
d. prevent them from closing or disposing their Greek enterprises to
raise the funds they owe the creditors. The government shall take
the power to expropriate these enterprises without indemnity, to
transfer them into public enterprises and resell them to raise the
necessary funds for the debt repayment.
e. systematically prosecute tax evasion of the oligarchic ranks in re-
spect of debt repayment. Moreover tax evasion in Greece has to
be tackled anyway.
4. Greek oligarchs have most probably transferred large sums of un-
taxed capital to secret accounts in foreign countries and moved their
assets to European financial centres. The Greek government should
publicly and officially ask the governments for help to block such
Greek accounts and to repatriate the assets to balance them with the
loan debts.
5. This goes for the troika of European Commission (EC), European
Central Bank (ECB), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well. If
they are so eager to meddle in Greek domestic conditions all the
world would favour Greek requests for help against the oligarchs, the
embezzlers of international loans and large scale tax defrauders. EC,
ECB and IMF would be in a fix either to engage for proper and just
debt repayment or to admit sheltering their Greek colleagues-in-
system from left harm at the expense of the Greek people.
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