Notes On the Greek Referendum’s Result
After the recent Greek referendum a solution to the Greek question seems farther away than ever. The reaction from austerity hardliners on the result of the election echoed the line from Bertolt Brecht’s poem The Solution, which criticised the East German crackdown on anti-government demonstrations :
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Wouldn’t it be simpler under these circumstances,
for the government to dissolve the people,
and elect another one ?