The recent experience of Greece is notable insofar as it demonstrates the practical unfeasiblility of confronting the global owners of capital through traditional democratic processes.
Syriza won a landslide election on an anti-neoliberal platform, the Greek people voted in the recent referendum overwhelmingly against the neoliberal program, and yet today the government proposes to implement neoliberal policies that are even harsher than what Greece’s creditors demanded.
Syriza has dramatically illustrated the helplessness of state power, and democracy, in the face of transcendent corporate sovereignty .
There is no way forward but direct confrontation against private sector power.