2024-11-11 19:40:00
I have to be one of the first with a term on the Left, mainly in the left press, who took on SYRIZA – a radical political formation with a cinematic understanding of politics, which replaced the renewal space, which was justified in name. what is there. In the beginning, mainly for the way in which he took advantage of the riots that destroyed the center of Athens, after the murder of Grigoropoulos, on 6/12/08. In words, of course, he was a step behind the destroyers – until, by December 2008, the newspaper “Avgi”, the party’s newspaper, published and printed a diary of the riots that presented them as a rebellion on its pages the Hymn that praised the destruction: “O pine tree, pine tree, how beautiful you have seized.”
The bankruptcy and the first Memorandum were a good reason for the rebellion, as well as roots, to find an era. SYRIZA was one of the first forces found in the Constitution, in the “Hardworking” productions that many thought they tried to patronize, and SYRIZA and Golden Dawn benefited the most. As usual, SYRIZA was always one step away from the incidents – but always ready to cover those who caused them, criticizing the government, the police, the accredited partners. Among acts of violence such as Marfin’s crime, the attacks on political opponents, the burning of the buildings in the Stadium (and the Atticon cinema), the targeting of journalists, the violent cancellation of the parade on October 28, 2011, the acceptance of a conspiracy. theories through and national bards of the show, SYRIZA changed from a low protest party against the power of authority.
Which he won, with slogans like “We will tear up the Memoranda with law and article” and “go back, Madame Merkel, go back, Mr. Schäuble” – and with the help of Panos Kammenos and the far-right ANEL. The tragic 2015 continued, with alleged negotiations, a refugee crisis, a referendum to test the country’s borders, capital control and a third, unnecessary until then, Memorandum, until Tsipras found “normality”. And, when he won the elections again, he transferred it in his obedience to “Madame Merkel”, in “stagnant bankruptcy”, in an attempt to establish his own client system but also in the tactics against the press and journalists who were not he. like… And above all, with the Novartis scheme against ten of his important political opponents, in order, at the encouragement of Polakis, to enter some prisons for SYRIZA to win the elections again.
But the world took them for granted. In the years that followed, we had another round of hostility, without retaliation. Completely disillusioned, SYRIZA collapsed in last year’s parliamentary elections – and Stefanos Kasselakis, who replaced Tsipras in the presidency without any machinations, failed to maintain the leftist myth, mechanisms and hope.
The rites of dissolution, which we are living in the last days, is yet another imitation of hostility – in the absence of external combatants, they are now fighting alone. It is the result of what they prepared. They fed the country’s meat and now, to survive, they eat their own meat.
But don’t laugh. That was SYRIZA. Machine of hostility. He was born, lived and died in its consequences. Fortunately, this time it’s not about us.
Wine that has not drunk a drop
Yannis Boutaris was many things at once. Today, I will only stick to his profession: he was a winemaker. He said it better: “I declare wine. I rarely introduce myself as a winemaker. I don’t just make wine, I also take care of it, so I want a more comprehensive word, even if it’s only two syllables. I prefer to use the word “wine”, Byzantine and therefore more familiar to my mind, than the ancient Greek word “oinos” or the Latin “vinum”, which refers to feasts and times, heavy philosophy”. (Yiannis Boutaris in collaboration with Maria Mavrikakis, “Sixty years of harvest”, Pataki, 2020, p. 43).
He knew a lot about quality, expensive wine, he was always interested in Greece increasing its exports. But, at the same time, he understood that wine should be good and affordable. “From my own experience, I can assure you that the average consumer wants a good wine from the series, of high quality, but without a lot of personality. He does not want greatness, he prefers to have his peace; to drink a glass or two at noon and in the evening, because that is how he likes it” (ibid., p. 52).
He was born in wine. During the golden bohemia years, he had fallen into alcoholism. He fought with him and defeated him. Wine that has not drunk a drop. A man with an iron will – this was Boutaris he loved.
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