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Greece, Financialization and the EU

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137273451

ISBN: 978-1-349-44523-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 3, 2015

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Introduction

Fouskas, Vassilis K.; Dimoulas, Constantine

Pages: 1 –8

[What are the causes of the Greek debt crisis and what steps should be taken in order to get out of it? Who is to blame for the destruction of Greek society after three rounds of harsh austerity since 2010? How real are the disintegrative tendencies in the European Union (EU) and how can they be...
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The Sinews of Capital and the Disintegrative Logics of Euro-Atlanticism

Fouskas, Vassilis K.; Dimoulas, Constantine

Pages: 11 –55

[We advance here a crisis theory of financialization and imperial geo-politics in order to recast key concepts and causal parameters related to the sources of debt and the way in which the Euro-Atlantic area is in danger of complete disintegration. Our central thesis is that ‘debt’ is not just a...
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The Vassal and the Lords

Fouskas, Vassilis K.; Dimoulas, Constantine

Pages: 59 –80

[What are the key features of the Greek social formation from the foundation of the Greek state in 1830 to the late 1930s and how are those features related to debt? Answering this question requires a periodization of the Greek social formation as it came to be inserted in the uneven cycles of...
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Passive Revolution and the ‘American Factor’, 1940s–70s

Fouskas, Vassilis K.; Dimoulas, Constantine

Pages: 81 –108

[The third distinctive phase of capitalist modernization in Greece corresponds to the post-war economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, a period marked by significant US direct investment not just in Greece but also in Western Europe and Japan/South-east Asia. Other forms of economic support and aid...
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Kampfplatz-4 and the ‘European Factor’, 1974–89

Fouskas, Vassilis K.; Dimoulas, Constantine

Pages: 109 –133

[The stagflation that hit the Euro-Atlantic core in the 1970s can surely be seen as a peculiar crisis of over-accumulation, what Robert Brenner calls ‘overcapacity/overproduction’ caused, among others, by ‘uneven development’. Laggards, such as West Germany and Japan whose economies had been...
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Debt and Destruction: The Making of the Greek and Euro-Atlantic Ruling Classes

Fouskas, Vassilis K.; Dimoulas, Constantine

Pages: 134 –185

[We seem to have come full circle. In February 1947 Dean Acheson saw in the fall of Greece the fall of Western civilization as a whole and urged the US establishment to provide aid to Greece and intervene there, because the ‘fall of Greece will contaminate the whole of Europe and the Middle East’...
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By Way of a Conclusion: Greece’s Debt Crisis Today and Some Normative Reflections

Fouskas, Vassilis K.; Dimoulas, Constantine

Pages: 186 –191

[Most accounts on the Greek debt crisis miss three or four, so to speak, ‘big pictures’ or ‘images’, all of which are interlinked. Even when some of these ‘images’ are apparent in their accounts, they have not been understood together as a whole.]

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