La Economía es hoy la gran Diosa y la gran Ramera. En su nombre todo se sacrifica, como divinidad que rige todo lo humano. Pero también a su paso todo se prostituye, adquiere un precio y se pone en venta. Esta falsa ciencia, tan falsa como la Ufología o la Astrología, sin embargo, goza de todo el prestigio ideológico que le confiere el Capitalismo. El Capitalismo es un modo de dominación tanto como un modo de producción, y por ello, sin ideología no es posible perpetuar la explotación. Se hace preciso que los Sumos Sacerdotes, quizá enfrentados entre sí en temas menores, académicos o técnicos, comulguen en temas esenciales en orden al mantenimiento de este sistema de dominación-producción-explotación.

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Who is responsible for the eurozone crisis? Can Germany fix it? Is a Grexit inevitable? What will happen after the election? You asked the questions and Greek economist Costas Lapavitsas responded

Why is Greece in such a catastrophic state? Who, between Brussels, the bankers, the politicians and the people, is really responsible? What’s the least worst option: staying in the euro, or Grexiting?

For three years now, Greece’s plight – and the international response to it – has dominated headlines. An estimated one-third of the Greek population now lives below the poverty line. Plummeting salaries and pensions, never-ending tax hikes and ever-deeper spending cuts have pushed the country to the brink of economic and social collapse.

Queues for the soup kitchens are lengthening; the numbers of homeless people are mounting daily; critical medicines are in increasingly short supply. Many Greek people are suffering as they have not suffered outside of wartime. Yet how much do we really understand of the reasons for this crisis – and the possible solutions to it?

As Greece heads into an election that could determine not just its own future but that of Europe’s single currency and prospects for recovery, we asked you to send your questions to Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at Soas, radical and well-known media commentator, and author of Crisis in the Eurozone. He makes no bones about the fact that he believes Greece should cut its losses and withdraw from the euro, and also argues that broader European austerity is counterproductive and likely to lead to a longer and deeper recession and the end of the monetary union. Ultimately, he feels the people of Europe must gain democratic control over their financial institutions, and ensure they are restructured in the best interests of the people, not the banks.

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