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So if Greece was "on the brink" in 2014, where is it now??? Just asking...
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a poor country on steroids,,,,loans
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IF THEY CUT PENSIONS AND GOVERNMENT JOBS,,,MAYBE IT WILL SURVIVE,,,GO TSIPRA....
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the greeks will wake up n restore the throne
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it is agricultural country,,how can they have pensions and uneployment benrfits and government jobs''how can they have office jobs when greece does not have industry
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Defence of Marxism? You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. Giving money to these Jewish faggots who suck the balls of little boys at birth. Do the world a favour and jump off a bridge one by one already all of you. Fucking pussies .
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More pinko bullshit
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Very interesting!
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See the massive famine and corruption of government control in USSR for failed planned social state.
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See USSR for planned economy success, it isn't there. China deregulated it's economy and it grew. What we need to properly managed capitalism, not planned economy.
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The only people in Greece that live without electricity and water are immigrants from Africa and Asia , and I can assure you no Greek gives a fuck about them , but they are used pretty well to make pro-solidarity documentaries like this one ,Greek people are not poor , their country is in crisis , but people are not poor , I've lived there , I know their life , they are still doing much better than Romania , Bulgaria , Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland , Lithuania , Latvia , Estonia , Croatia , countries that make great sacrifices to keep their economy up and they are supposed to pay money for the Greek debt , why the fuck ??? they have bigger houses than the Spanish for example , 2-3 cars per family , summer houses on islands or in the country , and yea money in the bank , pensions of 1200-1500 euro some of them ., all I saw in this doc. were immigrants , gypsies and communists ,fuck that bullshit ... we have to save the Greeks from losing their wealthy position ? Ok but ,but what about them people living in areas like Omonia , people excluded from society for being immigrants , digging in the trash , living with other 7 in small rooms , I've seen with my own eyes people like that being harassed and beaten by police , being offended by Greeks in the streets , what about these people ???
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globalization is the death of individual wealth of the general population, capitalism can work if competition is not driven on a global scale, give the local market a change so money will recirculate among the national population, and local government can benefit of the taxes generated on local commerce so it can service the people, instead of letting the money flow out of the country and into the secret bankaccounts of large multinationals or competing countries. Globalization is only good for multinationals and banks, not the national governments and their people.
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Jesus... only half-way through did I realize this was a communist propaganda film...
All of you Marxists are bitching about capitalists exploiting you for private gains... Well you just had 3 weeks of capital control, 3 weeks without the capitalists money to prop up your banks. Was it fun, was it utopia?
If you are all so socialist why don't you redistribute your wealth among those poor and give some of your salary to the ones who lost their jobs or pensions? But you never have and never will, because socialism is only 'fair' when someone else is doing the sharing, not you.
I would have liked my country to have early retirement and huge pensions and mañana -spirited tax system, but thank god my people are smart enough to think of tomorrow and not make dumb promises to a bunch of gullible dummies. -
One thing I disagree with in this documentary is bemoaning the cutbacks in the public service. Clearly the documentary makers have never experienced Greek public service upfront. Dozens of employees sitting around doing NO work while the queues grow and grow. Then when it reaches 2pm and you still haven't been served, they kick you out and tell you to come back another day (in other words, ask your boss for another day off and potentially lose more pay). It took me 10 years to get Greek citizenship and all because 4-5 different departments couldn't agree on certain laws, and then the laws would change in between processing so you would have to start all over again. I feel sorry for those who lost their jobs, but complaining that you've lost a job in a sector with low output, awful service and no concept of modernisation, it's hard to have a feeling of 'well, it had to happen sooner or later.'
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There the left goes again blaming capitalism... the Greeks never practise capitalism in the first place...they never accept responsibility for their actions. central planning is not capitalism
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The Greeks did this to themselves. Not paying taxes, retiring in their forties and spend spend spend and now they have their begging bowls out. They should never have been allowed into the EU monetary union. They were and are a third world country.
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I just saw the world premiere of a great documentary on the Greek crisis about 2 hrs. long called "Agora' " ( covering the period 2010-2014) here at the Trento, Italy Festival of Economics.... I'm sure it will be soon available on youtube.
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I will tell you what ... WHEN in 1999 they were forcing bankers to sell this new money EURO at overly inflated rates ... Europeans and everyone were buying this money in very large sums ... and purchasing forward rates that held their currency at those high rates ... LOTS of these people made LOTS of money in a few days ...millions ... even billions ... This real problem is this overly inflated currency being applied to everyday goods ...like lemons, oil, milk ...staples ... its the same lemon but an inflated currency being used to measure the value of this lemon ... So the solution is hold onto the land never sell your land and grow the same lemons ... either way respect the farmers and don't make their lives INFLATED!!!
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I am Evangelical Christian. In the Old Testament there existed the Year of Jubilee where all of Israel received their land that was lost through debt. No family would every lose their means of sustenance. Could a modern day version be a reduction of interest rates on the debt coupled with a gradual reduction in principal so in people could have their country back? A period time to adopt discipline not an eternity of punishment. These are people. I cannot stand to see anyone's spirit crushed
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Μου ομοεθνών σήμερα είναι μια φοβερή ημέρα για εμάς, αλλά αυτό είναι μια φορά για την ευκαιρία που μπορούμε να εξεγερθούν ενάντια στους καταπιεστές μας μπορούμε να δημιουργήσουμε μια νέα Ελλάδα. εμείς απλά πρέπει να ενοποιηθούν και να ενώσει όλους τους Έλληνες του εξωτερικού και εγχώριες. Μπορούμε να είναι γερό και δυνατό σαν τους αρχαίους χρόνους μπορούμε να εξαπλωθεί ακόμη νεοσύστατη Ελλάδα μας να χάσει τη γη μας, όπως η Ανατολική Θράκη και την Κωνσταντινούπολη. Αλλά πρώτα πρέπει να μάθουμε να στηριζόμαστε στον εαυτό μας γιατί εμείς οι Έλληνες είμαστε οι μόνοι που ενδιαφέρονται για την Ελλάδα.
http://www.greeceonthebrink.com Greece has become a focal point in Europe. It is both where the economic crisis has acquired its most acute form and where the revolutionary backlash by the masses has been the most advanced. We are pleased to present Greece on the Brink, a documentary that follows the course of the Greek crisis from a Marxist perspective. The documentary gives an in-depth insight into the profound crisis that Greece is facing today. Greece took over the EU Presidency at the beginning of this year. At different festivities celebrating this occasion, European and Greek politicians have tried to ensure the public by claiming that the worst parts of the crisis is over. However, reality is entirely different. The country, which is facing the seventh year of recession, is in a state of disintegration at all levels: financially, socially and politically. The Greek population has had to radically change their lives. Unemployment, homelessness and suicide rates have hit record highs. Soup kitchens are springing up everywhere and the country's public assets are all up for sale. Through the so-called "rescue packages" the country has in reality been enslaved to the Troika, consisting of the European Union Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The mechanism of the debt repayment scheme resembles the Structural Adjustment Programmes carried out by the IMF and the World Bank in developing countries. These bail-out packages -- far from helping the Greek people -- have only benefited the financial sector. The fight back against these measures in the last few years has been impressive. Countless numbers of demonstrations, general strikes and occupations of squares has been organised by the masses. However, the repression by the state forces has also been massive. This has ensured the punctual payment of interest to the big banks and companies, while ordinary people have been squeezed to the fullest. A small team of the IMT -- equipped only with a hand-held camera -- has travelled to Greece, interviewed political activists about the social and political situation and got some hair-raising stories about the misery that exists. The team visited the newspaper cooperative Efimerida ton Syntakton and the occupied former public broadcaster ERT, which is run under workers' control. The documentary also covers the serious changes in the political landscape as the left wing party of SYRIZA has become the main opposition party since the last elections. In order to place the Greek crisis in an international context, the team also visited the Marxist theoretician Alan Woods in London and tried to discover the roots to the Greek crisis in the international crisis of the capitalist system. In order to explore other countries with similar conditions, the team also went to Italy to talk with Claudio Bellotti -- the author of "Crisi, Debito, Default -- Rompere con l'utopia" -- about his radical approach of cancelling the debt altogether and what this would mean about the future of the country. The dilemma clearly stands out at the end of the documentary. From the point of view of the masses, the only real alternative, to the present state of misery and falling living standards, is the overthrow of the very system that produces all of the problems that humanity faces today and its replacement with a socially owned, democratically controlled and rationally planned economy. The documentary is distributed online under the creative commons licence, which means it is freely available to all. However, you can help finance our work by making a donation. A film by Manuel Reichetseder http://www.greeceonthebrink.com