Leftists see it differently.
Leftists see Mao as a symbol of days when people were more equal and many things, including basic social services, were free or subsidized.
The killing was seen as revenge for what Greek leftists saw as Washington's support of the military dictatorship that ruled between 1967 and 1974.
Changes to collective bargaining agreements, which leftists see as hallowed red lines, will be met with stiff resistance from unions, further challenging Tsipras's once radically leftwing Syriza party.
At least, that's one way of looking at it – one that's shared by all the people quite reasonably afraid of losing their jobs, the plutocrats giggling to themselves over the prospect of a fully-automated money-generator, and the new brand of techno-leftists seeing in our crisis the prospect of a future without work.
Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, one of Germany's last great intellectuals and certainly not a leftist, sees it as a transition to a post-democratic society.
Business and political leaders, mass media and academics cultivated a paranoid anxiety among Americans: suspect anything even vaguely leftist, see risks of "subversion" everywhere, and avoid organizations unless religious or loudly patriotic.
Much was made of the scandal by certain leftists, who saw the sisters' violence as a blow against class oppression.
Many leftists, conversely, see the region as a prisoner of the United States and the IMF.In different ways, both Ms Guillermoprieto's book and "True Tales from Another Mexico" by Sam Quinones offer an excellent corrective to such superficial approaches.
Europe's biggest city was under a security lockdown on Friday, as thousands of police manned barricades and closed streets to halt demonstrations at Taksim, a traditional rallying ground for leftists that saw weeks of unrest in 2013.
"A lot of Spaniards now feel that the state itself needs defending," she says.Her pitch works both on discontented leftists who see Spain's regions as a driver of inequality and on former PP voters worried that their party has shifted too far right.
