The great achievement of post-colonialism, the role of Konstantinos Karamanlis, the great political change that took place in 1981, when the country left behind the dark civil war past, the great opportunities lost by the economy, the change in the nature of the main parties as a result, and the failure of the SYRIZA government in the critical period of 2015. everything that happened leading up to his speech are the central points of A. Tsipras’s extensive article marking 50 years since Post-colonialism.
“The truth is that postcolonial values are not the cause of bankruptcy. On the contrary: We have led to bankruptcy because we have gradually abandoned post-colonial values. The causes of the crisis are that in 45 of these 50 years and during the whole period before the crisis, a sloppy, largely corrupt and largely ineffective client state was established under the responsibility of the two parties that ruled the country. “, he characteristically emphasizes.
In an article published on the website of the Alexis Tsipras Institute, entitled “Half a century after colonialism – Achievements and lost opportunities”, the former prime minister is self-critical of the tasks of the first government of the left. but also his achievements. At the same time, he harshly criticizes the Mitsotakis government for the “black stain of democracy” it left in the post-colonial era, the wiretapping.
In the article, Alexis Tsipras notes: “The great ailment during the Mitsotakis administration is not the economy, but the institutional functioning of the republic.”
“One of the most important moments of post-colonialism joining a united Europe remains meteoric: we are in Europe, but we are moving away from its hard core. We stayed, but we did not become Europe”, emphasizes Alexis Tsipras and at the same time sets a new national collective goal.