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Pod Damn America

(preview) A Decade Since Syriza

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Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

It's been 10 years since Greece elected a radical left government that shook its fist at the EU and IMF in January only to fold in July. We talk about Syriza's moment, the mystique of Yanis Varoufakis and, of course, some armchair socialist counterfactuals. For the full episode subscribe to our bonus feed at Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

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0:00.0

I mean, there certainly were many obstacles to leaving the EU as Leo Panich, who's a late

0:10.0

socialist theorist who have a lot of respect for. He argued, along with Sam Ginden, against

0:16.8

Brexit, he was a supporter of Sariza till the end, for the most part. He said that

0:22.0

political conditions that would make an immediate gregsit viable are not present today in 2015.

0:29.6

And people who insist that those conditions were established by the referendum are not are being disingenuous.

0:40.3

There's polls from July of 2015 that showed that 74% of Greek support staying in the Euro,

0:52.1

and that includes 66% of C Sariza supporters, 42% of those

0:57.5

pulled after the signing of the new memorandum indicated they would vote for Sariza today,

1:02.6

which is an increase over the 36% in the last election.

1:08.8

So his point is that this has given them credibility among some moderates in Greece.

1:15.3

And trying to leave the euro would be going against the will of the people.

1:21.6

And Cyprus might, with an enthusiastic campaign,

1:26.4

I've tried to increase support for exiting the Euro,

1:29.2

but even getting that a bare majority

1:31.3

would require more than doubling current support

1:35.0

for returning the DRACMA,

1:36.5

which is only a 24%.

1:38.1

And this is consistent with what they promised, right?

1:43.5

Cyprus had made it clear from the beginning.

1:46.7

And as Panish points out,

1:48.4

this applies to the majority of the party's leadership at every level.

1:51.5

They would only go as far as the Europeans would let him.

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