The future historian will easily draw a line at the end of the Greek Metapolitefsi (the post-dictatorial regime) somewhere between May5th, 2010 and yesterday — the date of the first elections in this new era. Nothing resembles what we used to live a few years ago. As anarchists, anti-authoritarians, people opposed to any form of representation, the electoral process does not concern us. And yet, it is crucial in tracing societal changes — and what is happening in Greece at the moment is immense. For the first time since the Nazi occupation, an openly Nazi party has officially entered the echelons of political power. While the Left celebrates a “victory” it will be unable to capitalise on in any tangible way, few seem to be reading through this temporary, murky shift-around of the mainstream political balance of power.
Society in the greek territory is polarising rapidly. The one pole, the pole of the far-right, the misanthropic facade of the current system of capitalist exploitation, is forming quickly. The crucial task ahead is for our pole to form faster even; for us to understand that the times (not so far) ahead will involve a fight to shift society as a whole in an emancipatory direction. A struggle to keep our cities, our streets, our spaces clean from misanthropic nazi scum. But also, and most importantly, a struggle and a race to occupy the space left behind by a crumbling, retreating system of order; we’d better get going.
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“we the anarchists” as “we the humanity” is just a big lie! the nazis can form one and unique “we” because of their lack of personality as individuals. Between the anarchists there are a lot of us who will always make prevail the unique individual before the group. That’s why as a “movement” the nazis will always be stronger. So, Unique ones, grab as much guns as you can!
Well this peroration sounds like a call arms followed by ‘Glorious defeat’. I don’t think that many in Greece ‘or elsewhere will find it an attractive proposition. And when the unique individuals have grabbed their guns they can start banging away at others. Who will be similarly unique and may even be following the same action plan. For animals with a high degree of social learning the triumph of the ‘unique individual’ always depends on the actions of millions of others.
Well, Nazism is one thing. But the elites have already choosen an authoritarian form of capitalism. In solidarity with Greece there are the european days of action in Frankfurt against the ECB and the Troika. But every single action from the 17. to the 19. of may has been forbidden!!!
So even the bourgeois rest of democracy has vanished in Germanien. That scares me even more!
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