Alternatives: Methodology for a new politics: changing the 'operating system' of the left after the Greek experience of 2015. Issue 3 (1st September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Karitzis, Andreas
• Is Part Of: Studies in political economy. Volume 97:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 308
• Page End: 319
• Publication Date: 2016-09-01
• Subjects: Building power -- democracy -- methodology of politics -- neoliberalism -- SYRIZA; Economics -- Political aspects -- Periodicals; Socialism -- Periodicals; Economics -- Periodicals; Canada -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Economie politique -- Périodiques; Canada -- Conditions économiques -- Périodiques; Economic history; Economics; Canada; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 330
• DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2016.1249128
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0707-8552

Abstract

Abstract: The "SYRIZA experience" provides valuable insights into the inadequacies of the traditional Left methodology to engage effectively with the state and the government within the neoliberal framework. The political imagination and methodology of the Left need to be modified, and I argue that we need a new conceptual and organizational framework of doing politics—both within the state and outside of it—that is relevant to the current situation.