For the past 30 years greece has lingered in an economic limbo between free trade economy and the huge overpowered state.A state that had a capital role in the economy and had the means to impose its will.Funded by the private sector and the european union it preserved a huge and incompetent public sector that encompassed all the aspects of private and public life and suffocated every try for reform.Why?
The answer to that question and the answer to how we came to the debt crisis requires a few notes about the greek history.In 1944 greece was liberated from the nazi occupation and a few months the civil war started.
The democrats fought the communists(although even today some call them the democratic army) and to cut a long story short the democrats won.
Now you must remember the above fact because this determined single handidly the history of the country and still the aftermath of that fact dominates the political scenery.
For the next 25 years the country had a democracy but not a true one since the communist parties were banned and the more moderate left parties were discriminated upon.Then came a seven year old junta and after that a true western type democracy emerged.
In the next 30 years every aspect of the political and intellectual life was dominated by the outcome of the civil war and the desire for revansism from the left.Liberal thought was condemed as it was always linked to the after civil war years of political oppression.A romantic view of the what if scenario was created(what if the commmunists would have won that is)and through its mist the principles of populism in its worst form dominated.The politicians bowed to the whims of every working cast and nepotism,party favorism corrupted the population.Politics slowly desintegrated into just managing day to day affairs without plan or purpose.
The few reform attempts were quickly swept away because the respective piliticians didnt have the necessary will.
In greece there is the paradox that unlike the other countries where the greed of the economic institutions produced the toxic deficit, it was the stiff soviet style type of state that brought the fiscal disaster.
Unfortunately the principles of social liberalism were poisoned with a greek soviet-capitalism condemning the greek people to the disaster we face today.
The answer to that question and the answer to how we came to the debt crisis requires a few notes about the greek history.In 1944 greece was liberated from the nazi occupation and a few months the civil war started.
The democrats fought the communists(although even today some call them the democratic army) and to cut a long story short the democrats won.
Now you must remember the above fact because this determined single handidly the history of the country and still the aftermath of that fact dominates the political scenery.
For the next 25 years the country had a democracy but not a true one since the communist parties were banned and the more moderate left parties were discriminated upon.Then came a seven year old junta and after that a true western type democracy emerged.
In the next 30 years every aspect of the political and intellectual life was dominated by the outcome of the civil war and the desire for revansism from the left.Liberal thought was condemed as it was always linked to the after civil war years of political oppression.A romantic view of the what if scenario was created(what if the commmunists would have won that is)and through its mist the principles of populism in its worst form dominated.The politicians bowed to the whims of every working cast and nepotism,party favorism corrupted the population.Politics slowly desintegrated into just managing day to day affairs without plan or purpose.
The few reform attempts were quickly swept away because the respective piliticians didnt have the necessary will.
In greece there is the paradox that unlike the other countries where the greed of the economic institutions produced the toxic deficit, it was the stiff soviet style type of state that brought the fiscal disaster.
Unfortunately the principles of social liberalism were poisoned with a greek soviet-capitalism condemning the greek people to the disaster we face today.
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