Question: Would it not be better if KKE participated in a government with SYRIZA or even supported it critically so
that it could shape government policy?
Answer:
The experience of the 1 year government of SYRIZA confirms the
fundamental conclusion that there cannot be a pro-people
management of the rotten and obsolete capitalist system. The
government of SYRIZA not only did not give whatever crumbs promised
to the people, but continues the same unpopular policy as the
previous governments, it did not overthrow even one anti-people
law from those which were voted in the previous years, it voted a
3rd barbarous memorandum with the lenders. The participation or
support of KKE in such governance would mean betrayal of the people’s
interests. It is not a matter of intentions, besides as historical
experience shows, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The illusion that the participation of Communist Parties to bourgeois
governments can pressure for something better for the people,
has been answered not only by KKE but also from other revolutionaries.