Words do mean things. For example SYRIZA, the Greek political party that just took over in Greece.
SYRIZA is actually not a real word, it is an acronym of the Greek words for Coalition of the Radical Left. Rather than a group of people with common ideals, it is an amalgam of different political groups with common ideals, mostly variants of left-wing political structure, each with its own particular anti-capital fetish. Some of these worthies are: Renewing Communist Ecological Left (AKOA), Ecosocialists of Greece, Communist Platform of Syriza: Greek section of the International Marxist Tendency, Communist Organization of Greece (KOE) and the Anticapitalist Political Group.
Another interesting word--or word grouping--is how these philosophers are described by the foreign press. They are the “anti-austerity” party. Now presumably this "anti-austerity" refers to how the Greeks are being asked to become more rigorous in their taxation, spending and administration with the hopes that those holding their debt might eventually get repaid. But can anyone think of a country that has embraced this outmoded, failed political/economic viewpoint that did not wind up under circumstances that were most "austere?"
SYRIZA is actually not a real word, it is an acronym of the Greek words for Coalition of the Radical Left. Rather than a group of people with common ideals, it is an amalgam of different political groups with common ideals, mostly variants of left-wing political structure, each with its own particular anti-capital fetish. Some of these worthies are: Renewing Communist Ecological Left (AKOA), Ecosocialists of Greece, Communist Platform of Syriza: Greek section of the International Marxist Tendency, Communist Organization of Greece (KOE) and the Anticapitalist Political Group.
Another interesting word--or word grouping--is how these philosophers are described by the foreign press. They are the “anti-austerity” party. Now presumably this "anti-austerity" refers to how the Greeks are being asked to become more rigorous in their taxation, spending and administration with the hopes that those holding their debt might eventually get repaid. But can anyone think of a country that has embraced this outmoded, failed political/economic viewpoint that did not wind up under circumstances that were most "austere?"
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