By the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Germany)
July 9, 2011 -- It’s that time again! Greece needs more loans and governments in
Europe are arguing about whether it’s really necessary and who should
foot the bill. There is widespread opinion in Germany that Greece itself
is to blame for the problems it now finds itself in. It is claimed that first of all
cheated its way into the eurozone, then the government spent too much
and the governed worked too little, many believe.
Latently nationalistic interpretations of this kind have been nourished by German
politicians and the media, who have no end of proposals for how to "solve" the crisis. For example, the Greeks should save more, work more
and sell their public property – and if all of these measures do not
help, then Greece will just have to leave the eurozone or declare itself
bankrupt.
The stupid thing is, neither are the causes of the crisis
that have been named are correct, nor will the proposed ways out of
the crisis achieve their goal.
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has produced Sell your islands, you bankrupt Greeks! to explain the truth about the fallacies being spread about the causes of the Greek crisis, and who is responsible.
