Louis Proyect
Wed, 05 May 2010 13:08:50 -0700
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Greg McDonald wrote: > At last, gentlemen, make your self-criticism and stop wandering > around pretending to be shocked. You are responsible for what happened > today and in any rightful state (like the ones you like to use from > time to time as leading examples on your TV shows) you would have > already been arrested for the above actions. My co-workers lost their > lives today by malice: the malice of Marfin Bank and Mr. Vgenopoulos > personally who explicitly stated that whoever didin’t come to work > today [May 5th, a day of a general strike!] should not bother showing > up for work tomorrow [as they would get fired]. > I checked the website where this letter appeared and was dismayed to see the kind of ultraleft bullshit that typified the antiglobalization movement of the early 90s. Let's hope that the socialist movement in Greece can become powerful enough so that this kind of nonsense does not damage the movement any further. Unlike the suspicious fire, the anarchists embrace this sort of thing: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/page/2/ REGARDING THE CASE OF GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS THE STORY OF A ROBBERY On January 16th 2006, a group of four people rob a branch of the National Bank, on Solonos St. in the center of Athens. A completely calm robbery, as all eye witnesses there that day confirm, was in the end turned into a record breaking, terror-crazed thriller of epic proportions, a breach in time that dramatically overturned the lives of tens of people, a critical point in the history of an entire political milieu. And that, thanks to the unique “heroics” of that bank’s security guard, who thought that he must run and stop the doers at all costs, because in his code of values the insured money of a bank is more important than anything. Even human life… or otherwise, as Einstein had said, two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the first. The result of the overzealousness of that guard and a few other pigs who rushed to help in his “pious” cause was the midday transformation of Panepistimiou St. into a shooting range for cops on live targets, in contrast with those being pursued who didn’t use their weaponry… A nearly dead street vendor and a blood soaked, dying bank robber on the ground receiving kick after kick, close the curtains on act one. Act two opens with the name and nature of the fallen wounded: Giannis Dimitrakis, anarchist. The authority unleashes a frontal attack on the anarchist milieu. Comrades are abducted from the streets, surrounded by cops with weapons drawn, and lead to police headquarters. Giannis receives the by no means friendly visits of the interrogator arch terrorist I. Dioti in the hospital emergency room. The mass media slander and try to devour him, his friends and family. Three of his friends and comrades are carefully selected based on their profile (long-standing presence in the antiauthoritarian space, continuous action against the enemies of freedom) so as to fill in the puzzle. The comrades Simos and Marios Seisidis and Grigoris Tsironis are propelled underground. The series “robbers in black – terrorists in red” has just begun. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com