\tIl semble que le surnom de Gorba le Grec pour Alexis Tsipras fasse son chemin. Nous-m\u00eames l’avons inaugur\u00e9 dans le Forum<\/em> du 12 mai 2012<\/a>, et effectivement utilis\u00e9 dans un texte, pour la premi\u00e8re fois, le 14 mai 2012<\/a>. Cette trouvaille ing\u00e9nue, qui est pour partie inspir\u00e9e par le film de Jules Dassin, en partie par notre attachement au souvenir de Gorbatchev, \u00e9tait peut-\u00eatre d\u00e9j\u00e0 utilis\u00e9e par ailleurs, nous l’ignorons. (Tout juste avons-nous rep\u00e9r\u00e9, via Google<\/em>, une \u00e9trange danse-parodie repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e sur vid\u00e9o, datant du 13 ao\u00fbt 2009<\/a>, et sans rapport sinon tr\u00e8s accidentellement pr\u00e9monitoire et absolument sans cons\u00e9quence avec la Gr\u00e8ce d’aujourd’hui et Alexis Tsipras. La danse repr\u00e9senterait plut\u00f4t, c\u00f4t\u00e9 pr\u00e9monition, les incantations grotesque du Syst\u00e8me face \u00e0 son destin in\u00e9luctable que les entreprises de Tsipras.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tPourtant, voil\u00e0 que Richard Cottrell, d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9 le 17 mai 2012<\/a>, adopte l’expression dans un texte du 18 mai 2012<\/a>, sur EndLie.com<\/em> : \u00abGorba the Greek: Glasnost in Athens or the funeral pyre of democracy?<\/em>\u00bb Nous en citons quelques extraits<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThere is currently a great deal of very typical Athenian drama surrounding the sudden emergence of a smiling young political rock star Alexis Tsipras, strolling about in the warm sunshine, tieless and relaxed in plain dark suit and smart white shirt, already elevated to the exalted status of the Gorbachev of Greece.’<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAnd while it is true that there are some intriguing parallels with Mikhail Gorbachev’s parading of house-cleaning perestroika and glasnost and the situation in Greece right now, the analogy is not exactly water-tight. Gorbachev was at heart and indeed has always remained a system politician. Alexis Tsipras, the telegenic leader of the leftish Syriza coalition, on the other hand, is anything but a machine man; he rather more resembles David taking aim with his sling at Goliath.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbSo the parallels with glasnost and perestroika are in some respects quite apt, even if performed on the far smaller stage of Greece. Tsipras is certainly regarded by many Greeks as a giant killer, boldly challenging the global colossus. But there the parallel with David in similar circumstances expires.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIt is really the Greek people themselves who are standing up to a force they regard as tyrannical. Syriza is the vehicle for what is quite close to and may become, if permitted a popular electoral rebellion. But here we need to make one very important qualification. The Greek David is not aiming at the edifice of the European Union as such. Gorbachev, we remember, wanted to humanize the Soviet Union, not to tear it down<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAs a government, Syriza claims it would not seek to take Greece out of the EU and nor would it exit the euro and return to the former drachma. On both counts, Syriza stands for the status quo. If you dip into those twin Pravdas of globalism, The Economist and Time, you would gain a quite contrary impression. If you listen to the great Brezhnevs of the EU the Kaiserene Angela Merkel, the pompous and seriously under-informed Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, Portuguese head of the EU civil service, and particularly Jean-Claude Junker of the pocket handkerchief state of Luxembourg then Syriza are hell bent on getting out of Europe altogether.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOf course distorting an opponent’s platform is a trusty trick of the hustings. Thus, Tsipras and his people are accused of beliefs they do not hold. That is why Barosso recently scrapped the election, so to speak, and turned it instead into a referendum on Greece staying in the EU. I regard this as an initial soft assassination of the Boy Hero Tsipras. It may scare a few voters, it is true. But Greeks are not committing suicide in previously unknown numbers because they are afraid that Greece will quit the EU.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThese tragic events occur because people are losing their jobs, their businesses, their self respect and the ability to support themselves and their families. Which brings me to the real driving force behind Syriza: the austerity issue really being the symptom of a much deeper cancer which is eating away at the body politic of Greece.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMore than anything else, Syriza is a popular phenomena aimed at the villainous self-serving crew plundering the nation over so many years. Imitating the Mafia, three royal families exploited the state as a political closed shop and private fiefdom for their own interests. The Venizelos, Karamanlis and Papandreou clans operate vehicles which are in the specific sense purely nominal in their respective positions in the political spectrum.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbGreek elections have traditionally functioned as no more than a means of legitimizing the transfer of power from one sticky-handed faction to another, allowing for the interlude of the NATO\/US backed military junta between 1967 and 1974. Syriza’s greatest achievement is to break into this enchanted circle of corruption and bribery. This is why Greeks are applauding in vast numbers. It is also why the Titans are shaking in their shoes<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tNous ajouterons quelques remarques sur cette curieuse d\u00e9marche s\u00e9mantique spontan\u00e9e, et quasiment simultan\u00e9e, de faire de Tsipras un Gorbatchev grec. Cette interpr\u00e9tation serait effectivement \u00e0 souhaiter, par rapport \u00e0 ce qu’elle sugg\u00e8re ; et ce qu’elle sugg\u00e8re pour nous est qu’un Gorba le Grec ne serait pas un homme-programme, venu d’un parti, nanti d’une \u00e9tiquette, d’orientations id\u00e9ologiques, etc., mais plut\u00f4t un dynamiteur dans une situation d’une tension extr\u00eame, d\u00e9clenchant sans l’avoir cherch\u00e9 pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment des conditions de bouleversement qui brisent le cadre du Syst\u00e8me C’est exactement la vision<\/a> que nous avons de Gorbatchev, r\u00e9formateur-radical devenu une sorte de kamikaze<\/em> pulv\u00e9risant le cadre-Syst\u00e8me d’un communisme transform\u00e9 en une \u00e9norme usine \u00e0 gaz-bureaucratique compl\u00e8tement paralys\u00e9e. (L’analogie pourrait aller jusqu’aux menaces<\/a> pesant sur un r\u00e9formiste radical type Gorba le Grec, comme elle pesa constamment sur un Gorbatchev, qui ne cessa jamais, durant sa grande p\u00e9riode, de faire comprendre \u00e0 ses interlocuteurs occidentaux qu’il \u00e9tait sous la menace constante<\/a> d’un coup d’\u00c9tat.) Si un Gorba le Grec pouvait effectivement contribuer dans le m\u00eame sens \u00e0 une action type-Gorbatchev par rapport \u00e0 la Gr\u00e8ce et par rapport \u00e0 l’UE, cela serait une fort belle contribution antiSyst\u00e8me. A cet \u00e9gard, peu nous importe son programme, qui en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, dans cette sorte de circonstances, constitue une prospective de peu d’importance, en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral pulv\u00e9ris\u00e9e par les \u00e9v\u00e8nements. Ainsi en fut-il pour Gorbatchev.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tPour autant, il est n\u00e9cessaire d’ajouter que les conditions actuelles, en Gr\u00e8ce, par rapport \u00e0 Tsipras notamment, sont assez incertaines, suffisamment pour tenir l’hypoth\u00e8se Gorba le Grec comme une possibilit\u00e9 qui demande \u00e0 \u00eatre confirm\u00e9e, m\u00eame s’il est \u00e9vident qu’elle pourrait prendre son envol brusquement selon les circonstances. C’est-\u00e0-dire qu’il n’est nullement assur\u00e9 que Tsipras m\u00e9rite actuellement, d’une fa\u00e7on l\u00e9gitime, son surnom de Gorba le Grec, du point de vue d’une position politique ouverte sur une possibilit\u00e9 de r\u00e9forme radicale. Un de nos amis grecs (D.V., l’auteur du remarquable texte du 28 f\u00e9vrier 2012<\/a>) nous dit que la faiblesse de Tsipras tient dans son parti, qui est plut\u00f4t un rassemblement, voire dans son entourage, et auxquels il ne parvient pas \u00e0 imposer une discipline durant cette p\u00e9riode \u00e9lectorale. Beaucoup de gens de Syriza<\/em> se complaisent dans des d\u00e9clarations irresponsables, inutilement dramatiques et mena\u00e7antes, qui ont pour cons\u00e9quence de d\u00e9clencher des r\u00e9flexes de crainte et de peur, et d’hypoth\u00e9quer d’autant un possible r\u00e9sultat victorieux lors des \u00e9lections du 17 juin.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 19 mai 2012 \u00e0 11H09<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gorba le Grec et son destin Il semble que le surnom de Gorba le Grec pour Alexis Tsipras fasse son chemin. Nous-m\u00eames l’avons inaugur\u00e9 dans le Forum du 12 mai 2012, et effectivement utilis\u00e9 dans un texte, pour la premi\u00e8re fois, le 14 mai 2012. 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