Political negative fantasy of a strange, a little paranoic man, concerning the unhappy Ukrainian and Iranian workers and their "lovers" in the possibly more "radical" Europe that is likely to come.
Let's assume or imagine that all this class upheaval in opposition to the center-left/center-right neoliberal big-bourgeois elite, brings to the helm of one of the largest and most central countries in Europe, a left-wing dude like Melenson (the best case, because also lurks Le Pen) who was initially neutral towards the Russian intervention, mildly pro-Russian you would call him, although he later changed his stance, orienting himself in the direction of criticism of Russia (something stinks over here).
A little further down, in the country of Joy, it reappears as governor again this weird left-wing dude who co-governed with a far-right pro-Russian party, and had as his man for all the international dirty work a strange adventurer narcissist-economist who has also expressed strange sympathies and tolerances for the Russian invaders, and who is quarreled with strictness with those who are shouting about the murders of Iranian citizens, women, workers by the theocratic regime, if at the same time they not criticize the Saudi theocratic regime (sounds right...but it stinks).
When this progressive chorus rises to power again, maybe then Ukraine will be tired, "warmonger" NATOist Macron will be gone, as well also the far-right pro-Western NATOist Mitsotakis, then, what could be better than a peace initiative ?
Come guys, give some of your territory, come now, we are with you too, you too Putin stop a moment, we are not NATOists, sign now, peace.
(Α little more aside, in a another issue: you Iranian comrades, be patient, we also need the oil of your country, don't overdo it guys, we are with you).
Smells, stinks, fragrant Russia and Chinese rice.
But know this, Iranian and Ukrainian left-wing friends, if this scenario were to happen, it would not be created in the dark by the left-wing political elites of Europe, but by the European workers and petty bourgeois themselves, in the open in the sunlight.
The left-wing political elites are running behind them, and if they don't manage to satisfy them, don't wonder if the far-right will play this role.
If it happens like this, a little difficult of course to the point of being impossible, we too will know why we ended up not far-centrists but wild-centrists.
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Putin wants nothing more from the Western left than to help to stop or minimize Western military aid to struggling Ukraine.
If the sharpening of the class struggle (from the point of view of the poor, workers, etc.) in Europe, in Greece in France or in the European South or elsewhere, has this effect, even by refraction, I, who am not a Marxist but a wild-centrist, I say, let the "class struggle" go to hell.
The "class struggle" in one zone or "nation" of the world must have
beneficial effects on the peoples in another zone or "nation" of the world, or else, I repeat, to go to fuck it.
The faithful of the Marxist or anarchist church can continue to light candles, follow their holy texts, I am elsewhere, and I have no need for such nonsense.
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It's a crazy ideological situation.
Hearing that left-wing MPs in the French National Assembly were thunderously singing the national revolutionary anthem, the Marseillaise, on the occasion of the anti-worker's reform about "pension age", I thought how much I would be bothered by this if Greek MPs they did it, if also Greek left-wing MPs they did it I would consider it a disgrace, even if the issue was not pensions but a military invasion by Turkey.
Watch out now!
According to the Greek leftist and anarchist criteria, I am an unacceptable leftist nationalist at best, because there are also worse negative characterizations about my humble person, while at the same time, is true, I have never hidden my position in favor of the national defense of Greece against Turkish expansionism.
But such pompous nationalist things cannot accept, nor do I need them to be -when it is appropriate- defensive nationalist or patriot, even if I don't want to identify myself as such either.
Watch out again!
The Greek ultra-internationalist leftist anarchist leftist anti-capitalists will not show the French leftists and their chauvinism the same severity they show people like me.
Twice colonized, the poor my self, therefore, twice hunted, I neither exaggerate nor weep.
Go to fuck yourself, friends, dare I say??
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Είναι μια τρελή ιδεολογική κατάσταση.
Ακούγοντας ότι οι αριστεροί βουλευτές στην γαλλική εθνοσυνέλευση έψαλλαν βροντερά τον εθνικό επαναστατικό ύμνο, την Μασσαλιώττιδα, με αφορμή την αντεργατική μεταρρύθμιση για το ηλικιακό όριο συνταξιοδότησης, σκέφτηκα πόσο θα με ενοχλούσε αυτό το πράγμα αν το έκαναν Έλληνες βουλευτές, αν μάλιστα το έκαναν Έλληνες αριστεροί βουλευτές θα το θεωρούσα ένα αισχος, ακόμα κι αν το θέμα δεν ήταν οι συντάξεις αλλά μια στρατιωτική εισβολή τής Τουρκίας.
Προσέξτε τώρα!
Σύμφωνα με τα ελληνικά αριστερά και αναρχικά κριτήρια, είμαι ένας απαράδεκτος αριστερός εθνικιστής στην καλύτερη περίπτωση, γιατί υπάρχουν επίσης χειρότεροι αρνητικοί χαρακτηρισμοί για την ταπεινότητα μου, ενώ την ίδια στιγμή που ισχύουν όλα αυτά όντως δεν έκρυψα ποτέ την θέση μου υπέρ τής εθνικής άμυνας τής Ελλάδας απέναντι στον τουρκικό επεκτατισμό.
Όμως τέτοια εθνικιστικά πομπώδη πράγματα δεν τα αντέχει η υπάρξη μου ούτε μου χρειάζονται για να είμαι όταν είναι πρέπον και αμυντικός εθνικιστής ή πατριώτης, κι ας μην θέλω να αυτοπροσδιορίζομαι ούτε έτσι.
Προσέξτε πάλι!
Οι Έλληνες υπερδιεθνιστές αριστεροί αναρχικοί αριστεριστές αντικαπιταλιστές, δεν θα δείξουν απέναντι στους Γάλλους αριστερούς και τον σωβινισμό τους την ίδια αυστηρότητα, την οποία δείχνουν σε άτομα σαν κι εμένα.
Δίπλα αποικισμένος ο έρμος ο εαυτός μου, λοιπόν, δίπλα κυνηγημένος, και δεν υπερβάλλω ούτε κλαίγομαι.
Δε μου γαμιεστε λέω εγώ;;
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Some comrades have not understood how frozen our hearts have become, some of us here, in Greece.
I will retire at 67, if I survive until then.
Well. In 2015, no one supported the Greek people, not to keep Tsipras in power, but to not reach the retirement age in 67.
In the meantime, in the steel factory where my father used to work, without any precautionary and safety measures, all his old colleagues have died at the age of 60, the luckiest, most of them from cancer.
My father was spared because he was lazy, argued with the foreman, often went to the cinema instead of work, and was fired for this reason.
We are southern, almost Sicilian, but our hearts are frozen like the North Pole.
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Can you imagine if the final moment of the Iranian democratic revolution finally broke out in Iran and the crowds made the mistake of singing the old Iranian national anthem at some point?
Many of those western leftists who today consider the singing of the national anthem in the demonstrations in France also in the national assembly to be something understandable, perhaps even sympathetic, would discover in the Iranian counterpart chanting of the Iranian crowd the hidden or open presence of the monarchist-fascists.
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As we are informed by reliable sources from the anarchist and autonomous anti-capitalist ''factor'' who are positively adjacent and not negative to the movement in France, so they have no reason to slander it, this movement is imaginatively and meaningfully framed by symbols of the great French revolution and by a radical democratic patriotism/nationalism.
I am not, as you may know, ontologically opposed (in the general sense) to such semantic frameworks, although the specific historical revolutionary context no longer satisfies me at all, that is, I do not consider the great French revolution something that attracts me, neither as a model nor as germinal Discource.
Apart from the specific, and now fixed in me, radical renunciations of this specific specific imaginary meaning framework that haunts the imaginary of revolutionary movements around the world, its additionally more specific appearance, again, in its "national owners", fills me with suspicion and worry.
Guillotine for the "android" robot of technocratic westernism (in part I capture in their literalness the symbolic threats of this movement itself), a vociferous choir chanting the ''Marseilles'' in the national assembly, what was its composition? because I heard an unpleasant rumor etc.
I don't predetermine anything, I see I hear and I don't get excited, I have my reasons.
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When all wish to return to an old symbolic foundation, the crowd chooses -among the many returns- return to that symbolic foundation it knows best, that is, in the depth of the many returns the "nation" is rise again, amen, hallelujah.
When this pandemic return is made by the French, there is understanding even by the greatest ideological opponents of this idea, the anarchists, or (there is) even an enthusiastic reception of it by others, not so radical as the anarchists and other pure internationalists, but anyway they are also anti-capitalists.
But when this return takes place among the Greeks or other equally disreputable uncivilised peoples, all of the aforementioned, among whom the Greek leftists and anarchists are the first, are foaming at the mouth, revealing at the same time the emergence of nationalist hysteria and the fascist danger.
Do not worry, however, also their own acts of orientation towards theire familiar foundations, they will bring similar results, if the Greek crowd goes out on their own massive path.
But they know it, for this and the Velouchiotis symbol, which is enlisted when things are difficult, to semi-support what they took care to suppress and send packaged for the exclusive use of the Greek extreme Right.
However, I don't see a national anthem to be sung in the parliament by Greek leftists, they have certainly left this as a possibility only to the Greek fascists.
When the French leftists do it, did I listen with the fascists? is true? Well then, there is no question, they are French, they are not National Socialists, it is a shame to say this, they tell us, without telling us.
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Όταν όλοι επιθυμούν να επιστρέψουν σε ένα παλαιό συμβολικό θεμέλιο, το πλήθος επιλέγει μεταξύ των πολλών επιστροφών να επιστρέψει σε αυτό το συμβολικό θεμέλιο που ξέρει καλύτερα, ήτοι στο βάθος των πολλών επιστροφών αχνοφαίνεται πάλι το έθνος, αμήν και αιώνια η μνήμη του, αλληλούια.
Όταν αυτή η πάνδημη επιστροφή γίνεται από τους Γάλλους, υπάρχει κατανόηση ακόμα και από τους μεγαλύτερους ιδεολογικούς πολέμιους τής ιδέας ταύτης, τους αναρχικούς, ή (υπάρχει) ακόμα και ενθουσιώδης υποδοχή του από άλλους, όχι τόσο ριζοσπάστες ως οι αναρχικοί και οι άλλοι πούροι διεθνιστές, αλλά πάντως αντικαπιταλιστές κι αυτοί.
Όταν όμως τούτο το ιεροεπιστροφικόν πάει να γίνει μεταξύ των Ελλήνων ή άλλων εξίσου ανυπόληπτων λαών, όλοι οι προαναφερθέντες, μεταξύ των οποίων πρώτοι και καλύτεροι οι Έλληνες αριστεροί και αναρχικοί, φρικιούν αφρίζοντες αποκαλύπτοντας ταυτοχρόνως την ανάδυση τής εθνικιστικής υστερίας και τον φασιστικό κίνδυνο.
Να μην ανησυχούνε πάντως, επίσης και οι δικές τους ιεροεπιστροφικές πράξεις προσανατολισμού προς τα οικεία θεμέλια, ανάλογα αποτελέσματα θα φέρουν, αν τυχόν και το πλήθος βγεί στους δικούς τους κινηματικούς δρόμους.
Το ξέρουν όμως, για αυτό και το σύμβολο Βελουχιώτης, το οποίο επιστρατεύεται όταν είναι δύσκολα τα πράγματα, για να κοπάσουν και ημι-υποστηρίξουν αυτό που φρόντισαν να καταστείλουν και αποστείλουν πακεταρισμένο για αποκλειστική χρήση στην άκρα Δεξιά.
Πάντως εθνικό ύμνο να ψάλλουν στο κοινοβούλιο δεν το βλέπω, αυτό σίγουρα το έχουν αναπέμψει ως δυνατότητα μόνον στους Έλληνες φασίστες.
Όταν οι Γάλλοι αριστεροί το πράττουν, άκουσα μαζί με τους φασίστες; ισχύει; Ε τότε, δεν τίθεται ζήτημα, Γάλλοι είναι, δεν είναι δα και εθνικοσοσιαλιστές, ντροπή να το λέμε αυτό, μας λένε, χωρίς να μας το λένε.
I am wholeheartedly with the workers and petty bourgeois in France, anyway I support the full return of the social welfare state and full pension and health coverage with full legal state enactment, according to the old pre-neoliberal data, but I have to say that I have NOT hope for the movement that is developing in this country, because I believe that it is a politically part of dissolutive anti-Western strategies.
Of course, the "centrist center-rightist" leadership of the West is mainly responsible for this turn of events.
It sends the common people of the West to the mouth of the wolf.
The people themselves are responsible, but the greatest responsibility lies with the "moderate" bourgeois forces.
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Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
