Violent attack on him Alexis Tsipras but also of the persons announced for the Scientific Council of the Institute launched by Nikos Karanikasspeaking of “extreme sadness” and “blatant mockery”, while he accused the former prime minister of “making fun of us in front of our eyes”.

Nikos Karanikas, referring to the members of the new body, spoke of “new politics” and addressed the “insensitive amoral scientists” of the council, posing the question “since when are social needs a matter of science and not of politics, i.e. assertion, management, government, democracy?” Sensitive people are scientists in mockery”.

In high tones, his former partner Alexis Tsipras wrote “shame on you for participating in this travesty”, arguing that “the institute is a choice of one, and not something collective”. As he said, “it was Tsipras’s decision and possibility, and since no one is alone in this life, Tsipras, as of 2019, has his own inner circle, the office of multiple defeats with which he moves with the aim of his return.” He added, in fact, that “”Rebranding” my good sensitive “independent scientists” called it and he returns renewed to what? & did you run to strengthen him by playing it sensitive and incorruptible? Returning to the prime ministership means that you are also his showcase, his Elite, his authoritative structure! A group of people insensitive to the vagaries of power but with heavy CVs”.

Afterwards, Nikos Karanikas argued that “the Tsipras Institute is an authoritarian structure, an Elite and let’s say it is not to be liked by democratic citizens”.

Concluding, he wondered “so what does Tsipras propose to us?” Is he suggesting we take him seriously because he made an institute of policy experts? He works for us and from his desperation to gain power he became the main spokesman of the neoliberals”, adding in a sharp way: “Someone should tell him that he lost the elections to Mitsotakis not because he did not have an institute and academic technocrats but because he was not convinced by his policy and his executives”.

The entire post by Nikos Karanikas

Tsipras Scientific Council.
Extreme sadness.(with patience 3′)

In the case of Tsipras, the demagoguery has gone a level higher and succeeds as it ends up in blatant mockery.

Tsipras writes, introducing the scientific board of his institute: “This is an excellent group…with heavy resumes…Sensitive citizens, who do not perceive science and knowledge as the privilege of some elites, nor as a showcase of some party or authoritarian construction, but as a necessary tool for social progress and as a contribution to improving the lives of many.”

Tsipras is mocking us in front of our eyes with this phrase. He obviously thinks we’re dumb. The mockery is precisely in this sentence that while he says that they are “sensitive citizens”, they have no relation to the elites and are not a showcase at the same time they are an Elite, they are the showcase of Tsipras to fulfill his personal purpose and strategy starting from the fact that the institute has his name, it is his. Insensitive amoral scientists.

These “sensitive scientists” are so sensitive and so scientists that they humbly accept to think that they are experts and suitable in a special council for Peace, Justice and Sustainable development when they should know as scientists that these three questions are not the business of science, but the business of politics, government and society with its institutions and these are not science.

So sensitive and so scientists that they probably didn’t understand that they are as an institution a construct, an Elite and power with the law, but they are so sensitive that they don’t want to be associated with elites and party showcases and powers. Collective mockery PhD the new ligures of politics.

So, our good “sensitive scientists”, since when are social needs a matter of science and not of politics, i.e. assertion, management, government, democracy? The sensitive are scientists in mockery. Since when are “sensitive scientists” Peace an academic matter? Case of technocrats? Scientific hypothesis? And who studied “Peace”?

Mocking a collective PhD is considered “sensitivity of the scientist”? Shame on you for participating in this travesty. The institute is a choice of one, and not something collective. It was Tsipras’s decision and possibility, and since no one is alone in this life, Tsipras also has his own inner circle from 2019, the office of multiple defeats with which he moves with the aim of his return.

“Rebranding” he called it my good “sensitive” independent “scientists” and he returns renewed to what & you ran to strengthen him playing it sensitive and incorruptible? Returning to the prime ministership means that you are also his showcase, his Elite, his authoritative structure!

A group of insensitive to the lusts of power but with heavy resumes. The Tsipras institute is an authoritarian construction, an Elite and let’s just say it is not to be liked by democratic citizens. He could present the council without a preface. It would avoid the stigma of self-disclosure through projection.

I’ll put it another way by asking:
▪️What is the Tsipras institute with the council of the sensitive?
▪️Is a democratic collective decision part and parcel of open consultation and participatory management?
Is it a democratic thing?
No! It’s just the opposite.
🔹 It is Tsipras’ political fiefdom and he wants to rule again himself and makes his court but also his alliances.

Since when, my dear scientists, are scientific councils responsible for Peace, sustainable development and justice? Since when are issues of democracy a matter for scientific councils? Where does it follow that politics is credible when it becomes a matter of scientific councils? What serious scientist says that society and politics is science? Which science is responsible for Peace and the issue is not going so well? Does the council and Tsipras know any such scientist that he can point us to?

The Tsipras institute is preparing some IX body-party and addresses the world by taking advantage of the need of the world that has dreams and he will make his dream come true by stepping on our dreams. But his dream must become ours for the plan to succeed. This is the worst power. Let it take over you and let her dream become your purpose. And obviously it needs scientists to achieve it. It needs a showcase. An authoritative build. But all this costs money and the state no longer pays.

So let sensitive scientists start with corruption and entanglement. So what does Tsipras propose to us? Is he suggesting we take him seriously because he made an institute of policy experts? He works for us and out of his desperation to gain power he became the main spokesman for the neoliberals.

Tsipras proved in two ways that he disrespects the people. The first is the coup in SYRIZA and the conference in Bouzouzidiko, while the other is his subservience and complex to the experts, academics, technocrats, making them responsible for his political narrative and for the prestige he needs.

Tsipras did not understand what the people meant when he gave him the order to change everything. He understood that he had to change – replace politics with technocratism, the left with neoliberalism, democracy with oligarchy. This has finally changed and he thinks he will come back and win.

Harvard’s Sandel, with whom he was photographed without having read it, makes it crystal clear in his books that think tanks and institutes of so-called meritocratic technocracy experts are the choice of neoliberals and have nothing to do with democracy.

If it is to dissolve the parliament and replace it with specialist academics. With this act of his, the way is opened for us to have the next government of technocrats.
It is obvious that the mutant Tsipras is with the oligarchy and its ideology, its practices, its sponsorships.

Someone should tell him that he lost the elections to Mitsotakis not because he did not have an institute and academic technocrats but because he was not convinced by his policy and his executives. Parties are not made by institutes but by politicized social groups that express a common goal.

Tsipras has no political cadres from the old SYRIZA except for his scheming office that leads him from defeat to defeat in recent years and all electoral contests.
But he’s so defeated and stuck in his office that he doesn’t see it.

It is obvious that he does not have any people by his side who love him without guile and opportunism to explain to him that what he is doing will simply make him look bad and his political reputation will go to waste.

“Extreme sadness” as my friend Manos says.