Author: Aristides Baltas

Note: Aristides Baltas, emeritus professor of the Philosophy of Science and the author of numerous books, served as Greece’s minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs and later as Minister of Culture and Sports during the 2015-2019 administration of SYRIZA, which stands for Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance. Here he reflects on the experience of a left-wing party that, if only under crisis conditions, was afforded the opportunity to govern a modern European nation.  This talk was delivered at a conference on “Left Theory and the Experience of Syriza” and will be published by the Nikos...