Tsipras and the rhetorical speech as policy

Dimitrios Kotroyannos

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Abstract: It is the first time after the restoration of democracy in Greece that such a U-turn has been conducted. The radical, unconventional and extreme rhetoric against harsh austeritywas sharply transformed into a tactical retreat in order to supposedly support more effectively the public interest. SYRIZA, a heterogeneous alloy of leftist tendencies, treated the popular anger and resentment towards harsher austerity measures in order to achieve electoral rise. Consequently, it was rapidly transformed from a small – protest – party into a power party. In this instance, it transformed, without moral curb, citizens’ despair into an extreme rhetoric which defended their “rights” in order to rise to power. Namely, SYRIZA treated instrumentally the expectations of the desperate as a means to rise to power in order to benefit the party but not for the whole society.

Keywords: Left wing populism; reproduction of power; enemy - friend scheme; political fetishism of power; adventurist verbosity; arrogant irredentism; tax increases (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A3 H1 H10 H11 H12 H2 H20 H3 H30 H4 I0 I3 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-02
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