The Three Worlds of Social Democracy by Schmidt Ingo

Author:Schmidt, Ingo. [Schmidt, Ingo.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783719808
Publisher: Book Network
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I thank Professor Vassilis Droucopoulos for his comments on an earlier version of this chapter.

NOTES

1. PASOK stayed in power during the following time periods: 1981–89, 1993–2004, 2009–11. In the period 2011–15 PASOK participated in coalition governments with various parties, the conservative New Democracy being the main partner.

2. SYRIZA was until then a small radical left party (4.6 per cent in the national elections of 2009) (see also below).

3. New Democracy elected 76 MPs and PASOK 13 MPs. Other parties in the parliament: Golden Dawn (Nazis) 6.3 per cent and 17 seats, To Potami (liberals) 6 per cent and 17 seats, KKE (Communist Party of Greece) 5.5 per cent and 15 seats.

4. Other parties in the new parliament: Golden Dawn 6.9 per cent and 18 seats, PASOK 6.28 per cent and 17 seats, KKE 5.55 per cent and 15 seats, To Potami 4.09 per cent and 11 seats, Union of the Centre 3.43 per cent and 9 seats.

5. M. Mazower (ed.) (2000). After the War Was Over. Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943–1960. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

6. From this viewpoint the following announcement by the Administrative Committee of EDA, at the time of acceptance of Greece’s application to join the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1959, is entirely typical: ‘The desire and the aspiration of our partners in the Common Market is that Greece should remain a backward agricultural country, a source of raw materials and a market for their industrial products … For 75% of our backward and over-protected industry … it is the difference between life and death’ (Avgi, 1 August 1959). Three days before this (29 July 1959) the editors of Avgi had forecasted an even less auspicious future: ‘No business is going to survive this relentless competition. Any that are not absorbed by the trusts will become their appendages and will be annihilated.’

7. See E. Ioakimoglou and J. Milios (1993). ‘Capital Over-accumulation and Economic Crisis: The Case of Greece (1960–1989)’. Review of Radical Political Economics, 25 (2) (June): 81–107.

8. See J. Milios and D.P. Sotiropoulos (2010). ‘Crisis of Greece or Crisis of Euro? A View from the European “Periphery’”. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 12 (3): 223–40. J. Milios and D.P. Sotiropoulos (2009). Rethinking Imperialism: A Study of Capitalist Rule. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

9. See D.P. Sotiropoulos, J. Milios and S. Lapatsioras (2013). A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis. Demystifying Finance. London: Routledge: Chapter 9.

10. In February 1968, the exile Communist Party of Greece (KKE) was split into two parts: the pro-Soviet ‘KKE’ and ‘KKE (interior)’, which shortly after espoused the Euro-communist line.

11. For an analysis of the class character and the inner rationality of neoliberalism and austerity as profit raising and power redistribution strategies, see S. Lapatsioras, J. Milios and D.P. Sotiropoulos (2015). ‘Addressing the Rationality of “Irrational” European Responses to the Crisis. A Political Economy of the Euro Area and the Need for a Progressive Alternative’. In A. Bitzenis, N. Karagiannis and J. Marangos (eds), Europe in Crisis.

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