Can elections pave the way for radical changes?

What can a Left that takes over the government hope for, while real power remains in the hands of its enemies?

What margins for alternative policies are left to our small nation-state by relentless globalization and German Europe? Is there life after the euro?

The pressing questions raised by the economic crisis, the memorandum storm, and the adventures of the government with SYRIZA as its core, have provided the stimulus for the new book by Petros Papakonstantinou.

The author argues that the difficulty of all Left currents to provide coherent answers is partly due to their inadequate programmatic preparation for the critical problems of the state and political power.

Through the intersection of political theory and historical experiences, representative excerpts from works by intellectuals of the broader Marxist space, both classical and contemporary, are presented.

The author attempts to draw some conclusions about the critical juncture in which Greece finds itself today, avoiding mechanistic transfer of ready-made recipes.

The book primarily aims to provide stimuli for the necessary collective effort of "specific analysis of the specific situation," which was for Lenin the living soul of Marxism.

The book "Left, Government, and State" brings to life the lively and fruitful debates among the various currents of Marxist thought over a span of 170 years. At the same time, it embarks on an exciting journey with key milestones being the "Spring of Nations" in 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871, the tidal wave of labor revolutions from 1917-1923 that flooded Europe and the struggle against fascism, the Popular Front of France and the betrayed revolution of Spain, the French and Italian May of '68, the experiment of Popular Unity in Chile, and the recent emergence of a new Left in Latin America.