SYRIZA’s inept efforts to modernize

I left Greece many years ago and thus my understanding of its politics might not be as thorough as that of my fellow Greeks who live in the country. It is possible then that the current developments in the SYRIZA party might not be clear to me. I am though a Russian/Soviet historian by training and given the fact that SYRIZA has its roots in the Stalinist Communist Party of Greece (KKE) I can give some insights on current SYRIZA events.

Just like KKE and the old Communist Party of the Soviet Union, SYRIZA has internal institutions such as the Secretariat, the Central Committee etc, which have been taking collective decisions. Such decisions are the purview of a relatively few members of long standing. Members who have been operating in an intellectual "bubble" - an "echo chamber," where left-wing views are debated, but outside opinions are neither allowed nor tolerated.

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