To write about Greece in 2010 as a basket case of its own making was an abnegation of responsibility and even accuracy; to pronounce the ways in which it was “behind” was to parrot the language of modernization theory, and to belittle it as such without awareness of the political intervention and military coup my own country instigated, and which arguably, if anything, set the country “back,” was to be disrespectfully disconnected from the historical experience of my own subjects and indeed from
