The State/Capital have never been orders of peace, except to the extent that they are able to pacify those exploited and oppressed by the system. When challenged though, they very quickly reveal their nature, their foundation in power and violence, the basis of all class sovereignty. And whether through its own forces of repression, or parallel organisations, State/Capital will employ them as social conflict dictates. Greece is the most extreme experiment in todays’ Europe of private appropriation of public wealth and power. And not surprisingly, where the most violent expressions of power display themselves. But equally, where resistance, in a multiplicity of forms, also intensively lives.
As regards the fascist Golden Dawn in Greece, it would then be wrong to say, as one can read, that it is not simply that the neonazi Far-Right is rising as a force external to the Democractic system, but that “the Democratic system has incorporated it into its core and is being consciously nazified by reproducing its agenda as a dogma of social organization and a method for the practice of government. In this sense, Golden Dawn is already in power”. (The Literality of Nazism) Wrong because fascism is a permanent possibility of all modern political sovereignty, whether in the forms expressed in the first half of the 20th century, or in some variant form in the present. Golden Dawn is neither external to greek democracy, nor is it nazifying it like some plague; it is rather what always beat in its heart, in Greece, as elsewhere.
Brandan Jourdan continues to chronicle the greek struggle …
On the history of Golden Dawn, a very good chronicle appears in Reports from the edge of borderline democracy entitled Report: Golden Dawn, 1980-2012. The Neonazis’ Road to Parliament.
Scenes from the greek civil war: beauty and the beast
The State/Capital have never been orders of peace, except to the extent that they are able to pacify those exploited and oppressed by the system. When challenged though, they very quickly reveal their nature, their foundation in power and violence, the basis of all class sovereignty. And whether through its own forces of repression, or parallel organisations, State/Capital will employ them as social conflict dictates. Greece is the most extreme experiment in todays’ Europe of private appropriation of public wealth and power. And not surprisingly, where the most violent expressions of power display themselves. But equally, where resistance, in a multiplicity of forms, also intensively lives.
As regards the fascist Golden Dawn in Greece, it would then be wrong to say, as one can read, that it is not simply that the neonazi Far-Right is rising as a force external to the Democractic system, but that “the Democratic system has incorporated it into its core and is being consciously nazified by reproducing its agenda as a dogma of social organization and a method for the practice of government. In this sense, Golden Dawn is already in power”. (The Literality of Nazism) Wrong because fascism is a permanent possibility of all modern political sovereignty, whether in the forms expressed in the first half of the 20th century, or in some variant form in the present. Golden Dawn is neither external to greek democracy, nor is it nazifying it like some plague; it is rather what always beat in its heart, in Greece, as elsewhere.
Brandan Jourdan continues to chronicle the greek struggle …
On the history of Golden Dawn, a very good chronicle appears in Reports from the edge of borderline democracy entitled Report: Golden Dawn, 1980-2012. The Neonazis’ Road to Parliament.