Reply #42: I think it already is a crisis and I see no evidence that it's going to slow. [View All]

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The austerity measures are unstoppable without revolution at this point. Europe's economy is going to collapse. And we're going to be hit with a new wave of depression and austerity after it does.

One of the issues in Greece is that the CP is conservative and Stalinist (so much so that the fascists have stated that they don't mind working with them) and sectarian, and another is that the rest of Europe still thinks they're in a better boat than Greece.

It's going to take time for the left to coalesce. Moving from a trade-union consciousness to a proletarian consciousness is going to take hard work and constant agitation from the left all across Europe.