Enragé
22nd December 2008, 03:06
I'd like to start this thread about what we can learn about the greek uprising, both in the field of theory and practice, but especially the latter. Just some suggestions to get us started (because i really think this is the most important debate for us outside greece)
First we'll need to establish a few things i think:
- Can this be seen as an anarchist revolt? (i.e, not that the only, or even most, participants are anarchists, but that without the anarchists this would not have happened to the extent that it has)
- What is the structure (i.e organisationally) and composition (of diff. groups, regarding size and ideology) of the radical left in greece?
- ... (think of your own question which can help shed light on the matter).
A nice article to read is http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2008/12/20/greece-and-the-insurrections-to-come/, from an anarchist (post-leftist, ugh :P) point of view.
From the cappie media:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1865999,00.html
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12815678
in which i found the following especially to be of interest:
"Is it possible to imagine an Anarchist International, a trans-national version of the inchoate but impassioned demonstrations that have ravaged Greece this month?...[T]he psychological impulse behind the Greek protests—a sense of rage against all authority, which came to a head after a 15-year-old boy was killed by a police bullet—can now be transmitted almost instantaneously, in ways that would make the Bolsheviks very jealous. These days, images (moving as well as still) spread faster than words; and images, of course, transcend language barriers...The spread of sympathy protests over what began as a local Greek issue has big implications for the more formal anti-globalisation movement. That movement has ignored the idea of spontaneous but networked protest, and instead focused on taking large crowds to set-piece events like summits. Such methods look outdated now. Governments are not the only things that networked “anarchy” threatens. "
First we'll need to establish a few things i think:
- Can this be seen as an anarchist revolt? (i.e, not that the only, or even most, participants are anarchists, but that without the anarchists this would not have happened to the extent that it has)
- What is the structure (i.e organisationally) and composition (of diff. groups, regarding size and ideology) of the radical left in greece?
- ... (think of your own question which can help shed light on the matter).
A nice article to read is http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2008/12/20/greece-and-the-insurrections-to-come/, from an anarchist (post-leftist, ugh :P) point of view.
From the cappie media:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1865999,00.html
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12815678
in which i found the following especially to be of interest:
"Is it possible to imagine an Anarchist International, a trans-national version of the inchoate but impassioned demonstrations that have ravaged Greece this month?...[T]he psychological impulse behind the Greek protests—a sense of rage against all authority, which came to a head after a 15-year-old boy was killed by a police bullet—can now be transmitted almost instantaneously, in ways that would make the Bolsheviks very jealous. These days, images (moving as well as still) spread faster than words; and images, of course, transcend language barriers...The spread of sympathy protests over what began as a local Greek issue has big implications for the more formal anti-globalisation movement. That movement has ignored the idea of spontaneous but networked protest, and instead focused on taking large crowds to set-piece events like summits. Such methods look outdated now. Governments are not the only things that networked “anarchy” threatens. "