“If we lose the war of moral and value regeneration it will not make sense for as many daily political battles as we win,” the warning warns Yiannis Ragoussisa member of the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA In a text text published on the party’s website, in the context of the pre -conference dialogue.
“The absolutely unfair democratization that is evolving, will be consolidated,” observes Mr Ragoussis, referring to a “prolonged crisis”, concluding that “they have an unnecessary, historical size, responsibility for those who have tried until the last moment,”
In detail, Yiannis Ragousis’ text on the crisis in SYRIZA
“SYRIZA PS in prolonged crisis. Why?
Ethical and value inner revolution is the Great. ”
First of all, who can oppose that SYRIZA – like the young and the Kidi who were separated from him after 2023 – is going through a deep and prolonged crisis? A crisis that has hastened to formulate the belief that – objectively – it is not worth the SYRIZA. Since 32% of the 2019 national elections, it has fallen to single -digit poll percentages, although it has not ruled for 6 years to have a justified deterioration.
It is obvious that the crisis that is going through is not a growth crisis in accordance with Gramscian terminology. It is a crisis that occurred with two breaks after the fatal election of Kasselakis, and with even greater intensity it culminated after the outbreak of the Palaean concentrations for Tempi.
1.What were the gatherings for Tempi?
It was an unprecedented – universal – outburst of collective dignity and social sensitivity. Where the Greeks and Greeks lived the squares not to defend material demands – as was the case in the Memorandum era – but to defend values: life, justice, the truth. These rallies were a new political historical milestone. They restored the popular confidence that had been eaten during the Memorandums and established new conditions of social rigor on the basis of which the political forces and especially the parties of the left and the center -left are now judged by their government past. Anyone who does not harmonize today with those who society considers and shouts as self -evident rules for the political management of such events as the Tempi that shocked it is simply marginalized. Because society does not only judge the government’s government past but also how they manage their past today.
2. The crisis of SYRIZA MS is a comic to be considered to be due to a left -wing Rhetoric of Famellos or Political Tactics, when since January, despite the unnecessary deprivation of the official opposition, it has had the political initiative in almost all major challenges. It is even more comical to be considered to be a communicative or organizational crisis. Such approaches can only speak out to anyone who seeks to cause SYRIZA an artificial introversion. In the field of programmatic discourse there is certainly a deficit as well as an urgent need for renewal and originality that is absent, but there could not be there the focus of the SYRIZA PS crisis, because this is a general problem in the progressive area.
3. The crisis of SYRIZA is prolonged and perennial because it is primarily value. It is a crisis that arises from the questioning of the moral advantage of the left. SYRIZA was founded and presented in Greek society as a party that represents the timeless principles and values of the left.
What are these values?
It is the offer with selflessness, honesty, collectivity, solidarity and of course self -sacrifice. Fortunately still exist at the base of the party, among the thousands of simple members and executives.
The historical heroes of the Left, the faces of symbols that inspired generations and generations – regardless of if they voted for PASOK or left – those who shaped the ideal of the left were the ones who even sacrificed their lives for the whole and not those who were led to them. – Social and institutional – cases, with the top of Tempi.
4. The crisis of the SYRIZA MS stems from the comparison of his image with the historical principles and values of the left and the progressive lineup and not from comparing with the other parties of the center and the Right. And because politics is the battle of symbols, faces are perhaps the most understandable of the people positive or negative symbols. In this sense, the problem of SYRIZA is not general and indefinite. It is specific and located. And, of course, the individualism that everyone says and does what they want whenever they want, the undermining of collectivity, the self -interest, the personal agendas. The problem of SYRIZA MS is no one but his evil self that does not allow him to harmonize with social value hierarchies. And ultimately perhaps the biggest problem of SYRIZA is the tolerance of this reality and the compromise with this value decadent reality by most and most.
5. If one looks back on the pre -election period of 2023, he will find that SYRIZA was marked by one or two, but 7 (seven) major, negative political events caused by his specific executives and who turned the almost tie in the 28th of the 28th Polls.
Even the deepest reason that the election of Kasselakis has hit SYRIZA is basically valid. Because as the drop that overflowed the glass, it proved to society how far the SYRIZA is from the left -wing values, as it was able to elect a president of someone like this one because he was a young and indestructible face. That is why they have a historical size, responsibility for those who tried to rescue Kasselakis leadership.
6. In any case, Tempi’s rallies have shown that in order to regain the confidence of the citizens, what we must do is not to suggest to the Greek people a merely improved party function.
It is something much deeper and more serious. It is a new party model based on a new, public political ethics worthy of the historical principles of the left and progressive line.
And this is equally concerned with any processes in the wider area of the progressive line. They – if they go – will either contribute to public life a new code of political ethics and values or, if they are simply left at the level of some program agreements, will not even concern the Greek people.
7.The 5th Congress – perhaps the most critical in its history – or will order for the moral and valuable regeneration of SYRIZA or SYRIZA will not come out of the crisis.
If we lose the war of moral and value regeneration, it will not make sense for as many daily political battles as we win.
The absolutely unjust democrat that is evolving will be consolidated. In order to return to us, citizens must first see us conflict with our evil self. And this is the only kind of introversion that will do good to SYRIZA.
Without moral and value internal revolution, no new SYRIZA can exist, no reconstitution of the wider progressive space, nor a defeat of the ND and government change.
This is the historical responsibility of all of us, with no exception.
The moral and value internal revolution in SYRIZA is the Great Request. This is what is worth it, this is what is worth the thousands of selfless members and executives.