Eigth days after the death of Alexei Grigoropoulos, 15-year-old brat murdered for practicing Greece’s national sport, pelting police cars, the international mainstream press, democratic and truth-loving as usual, keeps saying the hundreds of burned buildings, plundered bank branches, burned cars, ransacked police stations, pillaged ministries, HUNDREDS of Greek cities barricated and tens of thousands of Greek angry brats in the streets, occupied factories and universities, an almost-spontaneous general strike (unions had scheduled it fr this week before the riots started, tried to call it off but couldn’t do it and then had to pretend they were heading it) and solidarity demonstrations, sometimes with mirrored riots, in Köbenhaven, Roma, Madrid, Paris, Bruxelles, San Francisco, Moskwa and Barcelona (so far) are a "protest" against the murder.
The smarter ones try to assign the uprising to the "crisis" that shatters the last illusions of those who still believed in "trade freedom" and its ability to bring happiness and the end of bad breath to all of humankind. Some, even, militants in the thousands of groups on the left of the status quo, assign the miracle of the multiplication of firebombs to a delusional and hallucinatory "movement against capitalist globalization."
As we predicted here 18 months ago, Greek (and Danish, Polish, Russian, Belgian. French and Whateverese) brats will keep burning cars and attacking the police. In case the Greek government is toppled in the same way De la Rúa fell in 2001 (fleeing from the government palace in a helicopter) , the result will be the same: proliferation of local asemblies that are *as of now* popping up all over the place in the craddle of democracy. If this example bears fruit elsewhere (a distinct possibility), not even Pericles’ spirit will be able to predict the consequences.
Twenty-five centuries later, Greece is again at the avant-garde of democracy. This new Peloponnesus War may be history’s poetic justice beginning to budge again, resuming the same old war from where democracy was defeated.
"[…] the world has long since dreamed of something of which it needs only to become conscious for it to possess it in reality. It will then become plain that our task is not to draw a sharp mental line between past and future, but to complete the thought of the past. Lastly, it will becomes plain that mankind will not being any new work, but will consciously bring about the completion of its old work".