Mark Ames: Austerity & Fascism In Greece – The Real 1% Doctrine

[abelenkpe]

Mark Ames: Austerity & Fascism In Greece – The Real 1% Doctrine

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/mark-ames-austerity-fascism-in-greece-%E2%80%93-the-real-1-doctrine.html#comment-529795

See the guy in the photo there, dangling an ax from his left hand? That’s Greece’s new “Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks” Makis Voridis captured back in the 1980s, when he led a fascist student group called “Student Alternative” at the University of Athens law school. It’s 1985, and Minister Voridis, dressed like some Kajagoogoo Nazi, is caught on camera patrolling the campus with his fellow fascists, hunting for suspected leftist students to bash. Voridis was booted out of law school that year, and sued by Greece’s National Association of Students for taking part in violent attacks on non-fascist law students.

With all the propaganda we’ve been fed about Greece’s new “austerity” government being staffed by non-ideological “technocrats,” it may come as a surprise that fascists are now considered “technocrats” to the mainstream media and Western banking interests. Then again, history shows that fascists have always been favored by the 1-percenters to deliver the austerity medicine.

This rather disturbing definition of what counts as “non-ideological” or “technocratic” in 2011 is something most folks are trying hard to ignore, which might explain why there’s been almost nothing about how Greece’s new EU-imposed austerity government includes neo-Nazis from the LAOS Party (LAOS is the acronym for Greece’s fascist political party, not the Southeast Asian paradise).

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Scary!

[xchrom]

1. The post sovereign, post democratic era. Nt

[whosinpower]

2. God help us

The Nazi's are back.

[MedleyMisty]

3. This time though

There is a growing global revolt against them.

[whosinpower]

4. Do you think so?

Are you talking of OWS? Did you read the entire article?

When I read it, I will admit, the blood drained from my face, and my hands grew cold. I am now searching the net to confirm the article. I did find this - snip - In the early 1980s, Voridis served as head of the EPEN youth group, established by dictator Georgios Papadopoulos while in Korydallos prison.

He even visited Papadopoulos in prison, but says he recalls little of what was said in their 10-minute encounter, except that Papadopoulos “offered some admonitions about organising the youth group”. As Voridis recalls, “it did not remain unforgettable. I was very young - 20 years old. It was nothing earth-shattering.”

Voridis says that EPEN’s main aim was the release of the junta officers on humanitarian grounds and insists that the party did not defend the record of the junta.”I was never pro-dictatorship. I don’t believe in it. I was not a supporter of the April 21 regime, and I don’t like it.”

So why did he join EPEN youth? “EPEN was the main vehicle for the the national, popular and social right to express its views, and it had elected a Eurodeputy. As a youth activist in the national, patriotic circle who wanted to be active politically, it was the only outlet,” Voridis says.

EPEN “was a solution for someone who wanted to wage ideological battles in defence of the nation and of freedom. Those battles weren’t being waged by the central body of ND and of the right, which had chosen a kind of surrender to the left. That admission came years later by Antonis Samaras himself.”

“You cannot let the left dominate ideologically or compromise permanently with the left. Now that sounds fine. But when you said such a thing in 1983, you were considered a fascist. When I spoke about illegal immigration in 1994, I was seen as the incarnation of Hitler. But I was saying exactly what Pasok says today,” Voridis concludes.
http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13451/44549

[abelenkpe]

5. Lets hope that doesn't happen here

but I have my worries given the hateful rhetoric from the right.

[Hydra]

6. O.o

Wow...

Thanks for posting this. A warning of things to come, I think.