By Con George-Kotzabasis
The
following is a very brief reply to professor of economics Kostas Lapavitsas,
and former member of Parliament with the Party of Syriza, to his thesis, that Greece
can achieve its national sovereignty only by going back to its own currency,
i.e., the drachma, delivered at the Ithacan House, Melbourne, on April 15,
2016. The three first paragraphs were omitted from my response as I assumed regrettably
wrongly, that the time allotted to the questioners at the meeting would be too
short and hence I did not include them.
Professor Lapavitsas, allow me to make a short comment
before I come to my question, as at the start I want to point out what I believe
to be the roots of your erroneous proposition.
Dialectical materialism even in its modern
reincarnation of neo-Marxism, which you espouse, is a hotbed of gross errata, not to say terata (monsters), and hence
a fallacious doctrine.
Yet the ghost in the machine of Marxism,
despite its irreparable breakdown, continues to churn-out apparitional panaceas for
the ills of global capitalism. One such quack panacea is your own proposition.
My question is: Show us one country in the world hit
by absolute poverty, which, your implied return to the drachma entails, that by
adopting your proposal has achieved national sovereignty and kept it; If you
cannot show us such a country, then your proposal is a mirage, a
will-o’-the-wisp, an occult fancy.
But what is more worrisome is that you are asking the
Greek people, after the botched Tsipras-Varoufakis experiment, to be also the guineapigs to your own theoretical experiment which has hardly better odds of success
than the Varoufakian one.
National sovereignty is the result of prosperity
not of poverty.
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