Greek Strike Coverage Continued: Greek Workers to Govt.: “We Refuse to Pay for the Crisis, It’s Not Our Fault”

Two points in this video - (if you can’t watch it here, click on it and watch it on the youtube video)

“We refuse to pay for the crisis, its not our fault.”

Exactly. Irregardless of WHATEVER economic mismanagement theres been in Greece. It has not been the workers faults! Rich capitalists in Greece have worked hand in hand with the corrupt Greek government and have created a situation that is disastrous for everyone. The workers did not create this crisis, and this is an important point.

Often in these situations people talk about how everyone has to take a sacrifice because the economic situation is bad. But the truth is, in ‘good times’, capitalists profit, and workers don’t get much anyway. In fact, as Marx points out, the richer capitalists get, the more effectively they exploit workers. Their “good times” actually CREATE the “bad times”!

In “bad times”, they get less profit and they want the workers to get even less. That’s why we say—their crisis is not our crisis!

Second point, if you look at the NY Times article I posted below, the writer mentions that Greek public sector workers are ‘privileged’.

In this video, a woman talks about public sector workers making 1100 Euros a month. That is about 1300 - 1400 dollars, I think. Is that enough for you to survive on? Its not like their cost of living is lower, its pretty much the same. This just go to show you the distortions of the NY Times… (Which you don’t need ME to point out.) If you are just getting into this now, you should skip down a few posts and read my article on the parallels between California and Greece.

Kthnxbai!