"Undoubtedly, PASOK and primarily its creator, Andreas Papandreou, are phenomena that I believe will occupy historical researchers for many years. They will reveal the magnitude and quality of Andreas's contribution to addressing the socio-economic and political weaknesses of our country, and they will ultimately determine the degree of success of the social upheaval that fundamentally characterizes Andreas Papandreou's work."
This text does not, of course, attempt such an approach. It merely describes the political initiation of a university professor who, from the chair of a foreign university, was literally catapulted to the leadership of a theoretically revolutionary movement that dominated our country for twenty years and whose influence continues to characterize the political developments of our homeland.
"However, I want to believe that in this book the description given of Andreas's political initiation is objective. In this description, I think, there are also some basic elements that characterize certain phases of Andreas's subsequent political evolution, and certain positions - such as the positive one towards the EEC - which explain the various political - according to his opponents - oscillations during his journey."