https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:28:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/on-the-causes-and-significance-of-the-december-2008-social-explosion-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:15 +0000 http://arc.local/items/on-the-causes-and-significance-of-the-december-2008-social-explosion-in-greece/ Continued]]> The social explosion of December 2008 in Greece represented a postscript from the future. In a country where the consequences of the global economic crisis had already begun to make themselves felt — in conjunction with the collapse of a specific model for integration into the global division of labor — it had become evident that the younger generations were destined to experience a much worse future than preceding generations. The realization that unemployment, flexible working hours and hyper-exploitation would be the norm, in combination with other conjunctural questions (an exacerbation of repression, political scandals, sharpening of the migration question), resulted in the situation whereby the country with the richest leftist traditions in Western Europe witnessed an explosion of the greatest youth revolt of the last 30 years. It would mark a turning point for the development of new outbreaks of social upheaval that would bring to the fore the contradictions in management of the global capitalist crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-recent-economic-crisis-in-greece-and-the-strategy-of-capital/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:08 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-recent-economic-crisis-in-greece-and-the-strategy-of-capital/ Continued]]> The deficit and public debt crisis in Greece, part of the expansion of the global crisis through the countries of the Economic and Monetary Union, raises questions about the existence of a common currency for national formations with different productivity, the specific role of financial capital in the overall conjuncture, and the maintenance of the hegemonic position of Germany within the EU. In Greece the problem of the deficit and the debt is employed as a bridgehead for the deployment of aggressive class policies. The effort is centered on rapid transfer of wealth from labor to capital—reduction in salaries, greater labor flexibility, loosening of restrictions on firing, reduction in pensions—with an intensity unprecedented in modern times. Through this project the Greek bourgeoisie calculates that it will acquire the capacity to deal with the pressures to which it is being subjected by capitalist formations of higher productivity.

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