Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke of the tyranny of the minority in a discussion with author Pascal Bruckner, who supported NATO’s bombing of Serbia and the United States’ war in Iraq. As became obvious from the reports that were waiting to be published en masse, as if they’d been prepared well in advance, the meeting in question had only one purpose: for Mitsotakis to say that line.

So what minority and what kind of tyranny? Gay people, trans people, refugees, the disabled. These are the minorities to which the Prime Minister refers. And what does their tyranny over the majority consist of? In the fact that in recent decades, at enormous struggle and cost, each of these “minorities” have gained louder voices, demands respect. So, the tyranny that Mitsotakis mentions lies in the fact that it is no longer acceptable to publicly call a gay or transgender person a “pervert”, a refugee a “subhuman” and a disabled person a “cripple”. In respect lies the tyranny that Mitsotakis referred to.

The so-called woke agenda is a political fiction of the right/far right, a bait for the masses of the impoverished with the sole purpose of distracting them from the ever-increasing exploitation they suffer at work and from the continuous deterioration of their living standards. What is worse is that parts of the left also buy into the woke/anti-woke pseudo-narrative, as if class emancipation is at odds with respect for basic rights.

We as MERA25 say that there is indeed a tyranny of the minority, but not the kind that Mr Mitsotakis is referring to. It is tyranny to pay 10-15 times more for electricity than the actual cost of its production. It is tyranny to have no public hospitals that means you either have to pay or die. It’s tyranny to run out of wages earlier and earlier each month due to inflation. It is tyranny to be forced to emigrate because your country is now unliveable. It is tyranny to be forced to work six days a week. It is tyranny to be thrown out of your house by predatory financial entities. It is the tyranny of the minority of oligarchs for whom Mitsotakis himself is their political servant. In the face of false dilemmas, we put forward intersectionality: class, collective and personal liberation, simultaneously.

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