Suchergebnisse

Large scale US military & econ aid to Greece consolidated a corrupt bourgeois admin after 1952, which was considered a victory for the policy of "containment" of communism. A period of "growth without development" has occurred since 1953, when foreign investments were attracted to Greece by favorable policies, the large scale technologically advanced enterprises run by outside interests dominate the economy & cause substantial outflows of domestic surpluses, & not industr breakthroughs. The satellization of the Greek economy to US monopoly capital led to econ stagnation that precipitated the soc crisis of the 1960's. This in turn provoked renewed civil conflict that culminated in the military coup of 1967. The 2 major causes of Greek neo-fascism--the acuteness of class antagonisms & the contradictory coexistence of great fortunes & widespread poverty--can thus be attributed to the operations of imperialism in post-war Greece. Greece was attractive to foreign monopoly capital because labor's share in the nat'l income & in pol'al power was suppressed. The suspension of parliamentarism was meant to restore the control of imperialism & its representatives in the Greek bourgeoisie over foreign policy & domestic econ measures. Hence, the junta represents a neocolonialist dictatorship chosen by the Greek bourgeoisie from the narrow options within a constraining dependency situation. A. Karmen.