if i am wrong…
then you knows about monkeys and bananas,because you are sub-saharan greek….

if they were not Germans and British romantics, you would be called Urum…Roma…Gypsy=Roma

Yugoslavia is only in your dreams….

Now, the way he goes about is quit satiristic, but I am surprising with the negative replies even from Greeks, after all, the greatest satirists where Greeks (see Aristophanes) and maybe the greatest talent of a satirist, is to bring out the positive side (the laugh) out from the pain, out from the disaster, see “Life is Beautiful” by Benigni.

The other point to refer to is the actual anarchistic style and ethic that goes amongst the youths in Greece. I am Greek my self in my 40s but even back in my teenage years going school in Athens we had such groups calling themselves anarchists or fighters against the “system” (seems now is more popular), they were kinds mainly from deprived families or worst from upper high class, having illusions about life and order, instead of sitting down and doing something useful in their life. You know something, working class kids, kids that had to work for their bread, have never been anarchists; I bet you that even now that is the case.

And continue with the point that Garry made, that the only thing going on in Greece is ripping off the tourists, I have to agree is true. If all of those kinds who call themselves anarchists, or socialists, or even capitalists, from my generation up to now had taken life seriously, today Greece wouldn’t rely only on Tourism. Greece would be politically and economically more powerful than is today. It would have the power to stop the European and American “friends” destroying the neighbour and friendly country Yugoslavia and destabilising Balkans, and moreover stopping of using its soil for it! It would have stop monkey states like FYROM to threaten its sovereignty and the most important it wouldn’t allow half of the Greek population in Cyprus to stay refuges forced out by the Ottoman (in attidute) Turkey for more than 30 years.

and stop hiding people’s comments, that expose as a fraud who knows fuck all and likes hating on “kids” that actually go out and do things, because you’re afraid to dream of a better world.

As for Greece, it must be tough being part of a culture that peaked in the 4th Century BC under a bisexual Macedonian military dictator. The place has never had any redeeming features since, what, the five seconds of history in which the Byzantine Empire was actually cool and not a pathetic joke? Like the Serbs, their national identity is based off a tradition of getting their asses handed to them by better-organized Turks. And the Slavs, and the Bulgars, and the Arabs, and the Sicilians, and the Doge of Venice, etc.

There are no real riots. Athens counts 5.000.000 citizens and those out on the streets were hardly 20.000, most of them students protesting the death of an innocent kid, having no political agenda whatsoever except the one brought upon them by their self-appointed saviours… the left (each one of the many fractions) and the dumb drama-chasing media.

It’s just a public outburst after a serious police-violence tragedy which everybody seeks to exploit their own way, according to their own agendas. But when the storm cools off, the shit and the empty bottles will hit the surface.

Revolution is the trend and rage is the style. Fuck ‘em all left and right.

What infers riots and revolution is weak government. Read any sociological study of revolutions (start with Brinton’s Anatomy of Revolution).

A strong handed government that made quick and forceful decision would beat the piss through these teenagers and you wouldn’t have the riots to begin with, as they’d be pissing their superman underpants.

Stronger government I say, put Bill’s head on a stick.

You want a contemporary progressive left wing utopia?

Move to South Africa or Zimbabwe. Ubuntu my friend. It is a utopia for progressives like you. They’ll also greet people like you with a burnt tire necklace.

Go back to stuffwhitepeoplelike you fucking trendsetting trotskite bourgeoisie numbskull.

Goddamn, if isn’t neo-con authoritarian types ruining a thread, it’s authoritarian socialists like yourself.

I hope you get paid enough for doing right-wing propaganda on a global level. If not then I’m really sorry for you having all that messed up in your brain.

So, to explain it simply to you. It’s a bad thing that a few people take advantage of the other people. Any communist could explain why is so in a number of noncontroversial ways.

It’s also a bad thing to not see the actual role of police (any police) in capitalism (or any other oppressive system). Any Anarchist could explain that to you.

In Greece we had a period of extra-light socialism during the 80′s which is what gave the opportunity to lots of people to have a nice life. After that we’ve had liberalism (a nice name for shitty turbo-capitalism) which sent those people back to misery. Also simple to see if you care to look.

Far-right are called nationalist-socialists but whatever you call them they actually are far-right which means fascist capitalists by any way and they would happily reproduce “war nerd’s” article.

What’s happening in Greece is happening by people that have no serious prospects and they are many and they are many because of turbo-capitalism (under whatever name it may come to you). Those people have nothing to do with those ripping-off tourists. Too bad that “war nerd” never cared to distinguish between those two.

What’s happening to Greece is bound to happen to a lot of other countries that are bound to “globalization” (another fancy name for capitalism). If I were you I’d hope that it would be as little violent as it is in Greece but I’m afraid that it won’t, which in turn it will finally give the “war nerd” enough blood to keep him happy for years.

Like it or not, capitalism under globalization has bound all of us with the same problems. Either governments start to implement policies for their citizens or they continue by petting corporations and they get their own versions of the Greek riots or the Paris riots or their Somali pirates or …

You’re going to have two groups of idiots dominating the comments section. The outraged progressives (“OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE EXILE IS WRITING IN A REALIST STYLE. I’M GOING TO GO BURY MY HEAD IN LARGE CUP OF LATTE FOR A BIT AND GO READ STUFFWHITEPEOPLELIKE”).

And the “old school haters” (*SNORT* GARY THE TOPIC OF THIS COLUMN SUCKS. YOUR COLUMN LAST YEAR WAS SO MUCH BETTER. I HATE YOU).

The high quality of blog entries will continue, but the comments section will turn into boingboing.

Go to Somalia. There you’ll have all the freedom you want. I, for one, wellcome our new European overlords… I can exchange happily some individual freedom for a functional society.

Baader-Meinhof had a cool run. But they turned soft as they aged. They became just a bunch of tree-huggers and not trigger-pullers anymore.

You do realize that his name is printed directly under the title of the column, yes?

Are you kidding me? Those jackass kids with the depressed journalist? I know you spend most of your time being sensationalist because it is funny (and safe behind your nom de plume) but calling those confused fascists the last “real Germans” is just freaking confusing.

Oh, and the article overall was kind of weak. Stop replaying your “15-year-old-as-tribal-warrior” thesis. It’s getting tired.