A man called yesterday at the newspaper ‘Ta Nea’ and told the journalist where the communique was left. The full text is published today in this newspaper. As the police had predicted, the ‘Sect of Revolutionaries’ has claimed responsibility for the excecution of Socratis Giolias a week ago.
They have also published a photo of the group’s firearms (above),in similar style to what the group ‘November 17′ used to do some years ago. The communique is 7-pages long.
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i dont think this the right time to do such thinks. remember the RAF in germany. they stopped the 68movement to become even bigger, because people didnt want murderers on their side.
i hope the anarchists in greece will make clear that they disclaim these actions.
the anarchists in Greece have nothing to do with these actions, that’s crystal clear.
Hmmm..Let’s see, A Strategy of Tension or a tension of strategy?
But what a ridiculous photographic cliche, repleat with AK47′s and brought up to date with a few Glocks…The brass knuckleduster at the centre of ‘RS’s photo is an *almost* perfect touch, a universal symbol of brutality and gangsterism, which belongs to both the Secret Police and the Mafia underworld. This is a dead give-away too. Only those with the mentality of a cop would include it, and in terms of crude propaganda this is over-doing it somewhat… As for the communique (which I haven’t read), I think it is probably easier for these assholes to shoot a man dead than it is for them to fabricate ‘Revolutionary’ theory and rhetoric, one requiring a great deal more thought than the other…Killing a ‘journalist’ (not least an ‘investigative’ one) or targetting them generally, is a marvellous piece of recuperated “Propaganda by the Deed”, after all, aren’t Journalists the torch-bearers of Democracy,’Free Speech’ as the ‘Seekers of Truth’ and we all know that tyrants murder journalists don’t we? That’s the script after all… It’s all HORSESHIT, and there is even a chance that the shooters actually believe in what they do, all the while being manipulated by the State, so the entire Greek Movement can be smeared with the accusation that they are all maniacal bombsetting, assassinating, knuckledusting terrorists who aim to wage war on ‘Democracy’ and therefore all of civil society..and treated accordingly.
Group A makes claim Z.
Group B also makes claim Z.
Therefore, Group A is a member of group B.
Ad Hominem. The oldest trick in the fucking book. Machiavelli lives!
Bad timing.
Anarchy is the struggle for life, not death.
This group is terrorist, not Anarchist.
Power to the Revolution
Group members say they are fighting against the “imperialist domination, exploitation, and oppression” of Greece? (
http://3wx9.sl.pt) Is this information accurate?
If yes, they are fighting just as the oppressors and worse, as real terrorists since they eliminate people, lives in the name of what they call “revolution”…
I’m afraid of them and I’m an Anarchist.
This group must be exposed as criminal terrorists and frauds. Whether they are being controlled by state forces or lone nuts, why the Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian mileu doesn’t stand up against this type of anarchronistic Moaist armed insurrection crap is beyond my comprehension. It’s like mindless ressentiment gone wild. According to the Greek News the main influencer of the Sect is one Sergey Nechayev – a complete authoritarian crypto-fascist. Look, if I can’t fuck with feeling and show empathy and share indiscriminatley with others then I don’t want any part of your revolution! Down with Jacobinism!
Sergey Nechayev – read his abysmal
Catechism of a Revolutionary (still adored by Leninists and Maoists everywhere)!
Some aspects:
The Duties of the Revolutionary toward Himself
1. The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no personal interests, no
business affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property, and no
name. Everything in him is wholly absorbed in the single thought
and the single passion for revolution.
2. The revolutionary knows that in the very depths of his being, not
only in words but also in deeds, he has broken all the bonds which
tie him to the social order and the civilized world with all its
laws, moralities, and customs, and with all its generally accepted
conventions. He is their implacable enemy, and if he continues to
live with them it is only in order to destroy them more speedily.
3. The revolutionary despises all doctrines and refuses to accept the
mundane sciences, leaving them for future generations. He knows
only one science: the science of destruction. For this reason, but
only for this reason, he will study mechanics, physics, chemistry,
and perhaps medicine. But all day and all night he studies the
vital science of human beings, their characteristics and
circumstances, and all the phenomena of the present social order.
The object is perpetually the same: the surest and quickest way of
destroying the whole filthy order.
4. The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates
the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him,
morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the
revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its
way.
5. The revolutionary is a dedicated man, merciless toward the State and
toward the educated classes; and he can expect no mercy from them.
Between him and them there exists, declared or concealed, a
relentless and irreconcilable war to the death. He must accustom
himself to torture.
6. Tyrannical toward himself, he must be tyrannical toward others. All
the gentle and enervating sentiments of kinship, love, friendship,
gratitude, and even honor, must be suppressed in him and give place
to the cold and singleminded passion for revolution. For him, there
exists only one pleasure, on consolation, one reward, one
satisfaction — the success of the revolution. Night and day he
must have but one thought, one aim — merciless destruction.
Striving cold-bloodedly and indefatigably toward this end, he must
be prepared to destroy himself and to destroy with his own hands
everything that stands in the path of the revolution.
7. The nature of the true revolutionary excludes all sentimentality,
romanticism, infatuation, and exaltation. All private hatred and
revenge must also be excluded. Revolutionary passion, practiced at
every moment of the day until it becomes a habit, is to be employed
with cold calculation. At all times, and in all places, the
revolutionary must obey not his personal impulses, but only those
which serve the cause of the revolution.
Thanks, SHPURT!
May all the TRUE Anarchists recriminate this kind of “revolutionaries”(terrorists).
this is a totally recuperated gesture of violence, that does nothing but further media hysteria. if they think they can spread their message through issuing a communique to the capitalist media, they are wrong.
no meaningful revolution is going to be made in an advanced western democracy through isolationism and semi-automatic weapons…
Dumbest thing since the Symbionese Liberation Front killed school superintendent Marcus Foster as he left an Oakland, California school board meeting.
bloody Sack of Randy Maoists
theres one for every period of social unrest
Incubus who needs the media to smear the movement when you yourself gladly do it every time on this blog?
When do the cocktails fly again? Has been quiet.
It is impossible to tell whether there is any more to this claim than a security service ploy. Whether anybody believes the gobbledygook in the text. What is fact,act, posturing or spin. what remains clear is the projection of long term poverty for tens of millions within the EU. Over decades. And this remains a problem that the European states cannot resolve. It is unlikely that the class consequences of the ideological and social collapse of part of the Capitalist order can be offset by selective murders. No matter who carries them out. If its a cold winter this year thousands across Europe will die as a result of fuel poverty. And if this social/economic process continues unchecked random murders of representatives of the bourgeois order may become more common. None of these will be accompanied by texts or claims.
Is militant riot porn the summation of the “movement”? Will this dismantle wage relations, use value, private property, eliminate the fetish for work and the identification of “the working class”. Why does it have to be a Manichean struggle at all?
Or, should anarchists and anti-authoritarians push towards self-management and the long term development of local sustaining communities that move away from capital relations, the state bureacracies and profit and towards pleasure, gift giving, life affirming world that meets authentic needs? Capital has now colonized the planet and technological advancements have made it easier for internationalist federations to be created which should at the start run parallel to the antique deathtraps of the state. Watch as these grow – they will be viewed as major threats to the ruling class.
So, what have we learned from history? That intellectual vanguardism, conspiratorial armed guerilla movements, nationalist Bonapartist regimes and Stalinist regimes are but a dead end.
But that is a good thing! Soon states throughout the world will lack legitimacy and without these networks being built simultaneously toward a real livable future an age of stark and brutal nihilism will inevitably commence, offering the state another reason and justification to prolong its oppressive existence.
In my conversations with mostly everyday apolitical (which there are many and even more who lack a class consciousness) people, they would prefer an emboldened and authoritarian state to impose a sense of law and order rather than a world seeped in chaos. Think of how women and children suffer the most during these turbulent moments.
they could have tried to free prisoners or expropriate money from the bank, but unfortunately these gangsters wannabes are cowards and desperate for attention. How can anyone see assassination as a revolutionary act ?
You will never overthrow the state without the will to fight, and this manifests itself in ways that extend beyond the riots. Assassination, or regicide, is one such tactic in the arsenal.
Remember the Spanish Revolution, most of the world supported the fascists, and the British who stayed “neutral” only considered intervening directly if the anarchist revolt spread to the rest of Spain. I know this is a bitter pill to swallow, but I think it is naive to think we will make anarchy without war… History shows that power does not cede itself voluntarily. Those who wish to live in denial of this fact should keep to their drug-fueled 1960s bourgeois American fantasies of nonviolence.
I consider this ‘Sect of Revolutionaries’ totally ridiculus, though it’s impressive that many times comrades are so afraid that some actions will be used by others to show something else. I don’t think many people in the greek society can even imagine that these actions are done by people of the movement. OK, of course the state will try to use this, but actually the difference is obvious to the most people, and nobody can use the actions of the Sect to accuse someone that resist. I don’t think that it’s so scary after all.
About the question of 7 ANTIFAA, no they do not talk against imperialism and exploitation of Greece. Patriotism is not the problem of the communique. The problems are others…
Wow! Nice set of weapons you got there. I like that Uzi in the middle, not that there is anything wrong with the AK-47
What kind of gun laws are there in Greece, is it hard to get weapons?
Kill us all you poor communists. Kill as more people as you want in the name of anarchism and socialist. You can.
I would be happy to see the real Greek people crashing all the communists subhumen. Please wait and see the day is not so long where these lazy fucktards will have to run on their holes.
Greece for Greeks
Gun laws are strict, and weapons are not usually used in most actions, even in bank robberies. I guess that if you have the contacts you need, finding a weapon is not difficult.
Long live the armed struggle – Long live Sect of Revolutionaries.
@SHPURT!
Then again the lumpen would prefer an emboldened and authoritarian state to impose a sense of law and order rather than a world of goodness and beauty. Furthermore, it is those same brainwashed apolitical masses which always bitch about what a jungle their societies have turned into, everytime another incident of crime chips away at their illusion of state-purveyed security. You reformists insist to drag everybody else into this dispicable discrediting of revolutionaries by using the masses’ penchant for authoritarianism as an argument for being obedient to the Holy Movement of Grassroots Anarchism.
I say fuck your Movement of Inertia because, when one day the Sect of Revolutionaries puts some new buttonholes on the uniform of a bike cop, there will be many to remember how subthreshold your lukewarm non-violent ways were in avenging the second attempt from the State to break the skull of the pacifist Aggeliki Koutsoubou (the first being from the military police ESA, during the Junta), when she was rammed with an upgraded Gotzamanis-mobile and battoned to oblivion by one of those pigs.
Hmmmh… “leftist” terrorists assasinate a reporter who uncovers corruption and is a thorn in the side of the current elite.
“Terrorist” do it operating on a level of CIA or Mossad (bullet proof vest, false uniforms…)
I mean I’m not big in conspiracy theories but give me a break! What next? They start murdering left wing politicians..?
Acts of terrorism, especially aimed at collateral ill- protected low priority civil targets, cultivate the spectacle, reinforce the state, invalidate ethical accountability, demoralize popular support, exhibit strategical deficiency, and entirely misrepresent the revolution.
But hey, if it’s all for the good cause of keeping y’all preoccupied, as any of the spectacle amplifying news facts on this board, duly awarded by the correspondently high number of submitted comments on this article. Evidently sufficiently enticing to induce industrious exchange of pointless discourse, in order to procure yourselves the illusion as if actively participating in an actual revolution.
I say, why stay with the journalists, why not kill a random capitalist, a tourist, or a priest?
To so forth attribute another spectacular reason for us to substantiate the spectacle with speechifying backtalk and once again surge the comment box’s volume to unprecedented levels.
From my safe armchair free from physical trauma & peril, adventuresomely cruising through the harmless virtual environment of cyberspace, supposing that by scribbling a few notes here & there, I am actually contributing to an actual revolution, I wish you all the luck you’ll probably need on that apostolic mission, Revolutionary Sect.
Go ahead waste another life for sakes of keeping the dream alive!
You know we need the fix bad.
P.S. Exarchion, my words exactly.
@Faust – and I say fuck your nihilist movement of small group, clandestine violent revolutionaries separated from the workers. Sorry, terrorism is a right wing reactionary weapon (for a variety of reasons) and does not support true revolutionary aims.
If all you want is to see the world in flames without building a better alternative situation for all then you have no creativity. You should join the capitalists and religious zealots with their death fetish. Anarchism does not equate to mindless chaos.
@Exarchion – yes, there will be a fight but an internationalist one of solidarity – a mass class resistence.
Why did the 2008 riots lead to a dead end? Because the youth and young workers – even in their efforts to occupy and form general assemblies could not truly connect with the rest of the working class (of public and private sector) and elements of the petit bourgeoise to formulate a protracted general strike and to push through demands without being consistently derailed by unions and political party loyalties to discipline and organization (PASOK, SYRIZA and KKE).
@14 EXARCHION -
‘Smear’ which movement? Is RS a movement? Is there a credible Nihilist movement in Greece? Or do you mean the antagonist movement in general? I made observations, expressed opinions, hardly ‘smearing’ anyone…I have an issue with nihilists of FAUSTS ilk, who depend on a vicious militancy, the violence of which could so easily be turned against those who fail to support the methods currently employed by RS and other ‘urban guerillas’. The guillotine is never far away from the bloody rhetoric of Political Nihilsm,( See ANTIFAAs comment “I’m afraid of them and I’m an Anarchist.”)This is an ideology that lends itself so well to reactionary terror and turns full circle to authoritarianism (See Nechaeyevs’ ‘Invisible Dictatorship’)..Clandestine groups, by their very nature breed suspicion, doubt, fear and confusion…and when we know they are run by the State, we call them Death Squads…(Task Force 373?) Who are the RS? Are they State puppets, a Pseudo-gang, or romantic, syncretic, pistol-toting, vanguardist pricks who play into the hands of Authority, feeding the Spectacular law and order mill? Guerilla actions are only useful or justified in the context of a generalised social uprising (and without question, to resist dictatorship). I don’t believe the enemy can be defeated without force. I also believe that all violence is repulsive, banal and degrading, but it is also a powerful tool. I would never renounce my share of it, and nor should any proletarian when the State holds the monopoly of violence itself. It should be used with consideration, so that it cannot be manipulated for Statist propaganda purposes, with an eye to tactical and strategic goals, timing and psychological impact. The supposed Nihilo-Maoist groups carrying out actions in Greece are about as divorced from reality and the Greek proletariat as they can be…and funcyionally irrelevent. But if they ARE genuine ‘antagonists’ then they appear to inhabit a world of Futurist Manifesto-esque hyperbole of ‘blood and thunder’ and the total, immediate destruction of Bourgeois civilisation, and doubtless the “brainwashed apolitical masses” along with it…As SHPURT! put it-”It’s like mindless ressentiment gone wild.” A tension of strategy indeed…
In my opinion this discusion are pointless.Greece and broader european proletariat doesn’t want any revolution. Don’t you learn anything from Maoism? Western proletariat fight and strike for social level of live, in defence of social state. Not against the state. Western prolatiariat are participating in capitalism. The real revolutionary people are in the Third World, in his guerillas and movements. Do you believe that revolution in Greece is possible even if people are angry against the antisocial reform? They anger and strike for socialdemocratic order, for social level.
INCUBUS Since I concurred on that statement, indulge me for my part, to point to your unrelenting comments that alternate all across the board, rarely missing an opportunity, to accessorize the news- reports, with superfluous additional information, advice & commentaries, derived by your own distorted sense of truth, measured on the unstable scales of the ever fluctuating relative truth that you solidly believe in as absolute. In sophisticated well articulated wording, richly interspersed with fancy vocabulary, impressive knowledge of appertaining nomenclaturist denominations, presented with the unsurpassable flair of a regular Einstein, like a tour guide of the Greek uprising, showing every accordant revolutionary precedence, applicable theory & type of action & reaction and what not.
Perhaps that the excessive frequency by which you relentlessly persist with no let up, to appropriate space, seems innocent, reserved & bipartizan enough,
from your own unobjective perspective evaluated. But I for one am frustrated
and judging from other comments that I perused, some might share the deprecation with me, as I suspect that for whatever undefined selfish reason the public attention is being expropriated for an independent ulterior agenda of your own.
And hence the allegation of smearing the revolutionary movement ad hoc, yes indeed, Greek, but further an unspecified, immaterial & abstract movement.
Whereas I am pertinently disturbed by the contestable logics to which you apparently automatically resort to pretext schism by discriminatory determinations, in such distinguishably imposing the typically disassociating & marginalizing prescriptive analysis, condescending denotations & misrepresented idealizations, as the masters of civilization successfully maintained throughout history to accommodate their shattering policies of divide & conquer. For it are particularly those disunifying anti-forces that ought to be considered the number one enemy of the revolution.
Yet for all clearness I have to subscribe the clause in order to avoid plausible misinterpretation of contradicting myself, and explain especially that internationally speaking there is remote from a tangible & active revolution, by the most favorable diagnosis merely a pro-revolution momentum in theory, and albeit some demonstrable and perhaps still unacknowledged, factually interconnected interests between one & the other definetly exist, can’t & shouldn’t be discarded, the situation for the here & now at hand, is predominantly a local internal crisis, peradventure a popular Greek revolution even, by the most optimistic prognosis, possibly a sociologic trigger mechanism for an European insurrection, then again in the most pessimistic outcome a temporary national turbulence that will once more over inconclusively settle terminally, under new civil reconciliations, concessions, agreements, terms etc.
Yeah, etc.
What the hell is your problem, you stupid reformists, with people determined to live revolution here and now, in their own terms. Why getting so incensed with individual action against the state? Do you honestly think the state needs an excuse in terrorism to press on with its slave-making agenda?
Keep your damn hands off rioters, those maggots of you who act as if there exists an unofficial Party of Anarchism, to which everyone must adhere. There has been alot of stupid suggestions by your ilk of turning rioters to the police. Don’t stoop to that level, or things will go nasty. It’s one thing being stupid enough to wait interminably for the revolution to be debated in your foul little democratic charades and another to cannibalise those who are daring enough to not waste their lives expecting tyrrany to budge to prayers for freedom. And keep your mouth shut in front of audiences where police agents might lurk, eager to pick up innuendos about certain individuals or groups.
Silencing criticism by unresponsiveness to serve the evasion of accountability is tantamount a tactic of diversion copied straight out of the NWO handbook for, slavery, oppression & absolute rulership by psychological indoctrination.
I am actually not much surprised, it would had impressed & startled me rather if you would had politely, sincerely & correctly accounted a decent logical contention against the imposed suspicion, of exploiting the public attention on the news updates from Greece for an ulterior private motive. Which is an imaginable, reasonable, legitimate, inquiry, when discerning the noticeable overabundant responses assigning your signature to just about any article published. Plus with consideration to the fact that more then a few people raised quite similar allegations by what I recall, literally ranging from you trolling the site, to smearing the movement at any chance you get.
But your obvious impotent, arrogant & unauthentic to do right.
Assumably too hypocritical to infer for your own, how you quintessentially lack, denounce & contradict in presence, theory & conduct, all the decorum, virtues & ideals, which according your general statements you proclaim as representative, defining & intrinsic to the type of modern social revolution as you ostensibly sympathize. Probably too absorbed in your complacent egotrip productively flaunting your intellectual hypernymy, (notably compensating on a contingent emotional, psychological, or social dysfunction), incapable to penetrate how your self-interested, non-philanthropic & exploitive demeanor especially personifies de facto the living proof in testifying versus the idealistic case that you sanctimoniously present in token disguised as the morally superior class struggle for equality.
And therefore, to reverse the criteria by your own ethical standards against yourself, the revolution should foremost be directed to primarily get rid of discriminatory, asocial, narcissistic, nerds like you, transparently perverting the anarchistic revolution for own profiteering as you excel in.
If I am a troll and one who ‘smears’ then I am one in the tradition of Hans Joachim Klein (RAF)and Gianfranco Sanguinetti (SI), whom I quote here at length:-
“In a parallel manner to the catastrophic or miraculous explanations of history, the spectacle reaches the point of no longer knowing whom it rules, no longer grasping the reality and the thoughts it must master urgently; and, as Machiavelli says, “where one knows least, one suspects most”: the entire population, and all the young people in particular, become suspect in the eyes of power. At the same time if artificial terrorism claims to be *the only real phenomenom*, all spontaneous revolts, like those of Rome and Bologna in 1977, become according to this “police conception of history” a plot, artificially hatched and led by “occult forces” yet “quite identifiable- as Stalinists today still maintain. Everything that power does not forecast, because it has not orgnized it, therefore becomes a “plot” against it; on the other hand, artificial terrorism, being organized and directed by the masters of the spectacle, is a *real* and spontaneous phenomenom that these latter continually feign to fight, for the simple reason that *it is easier to defend oneself from a simulated enemy, than from a real enemy*. And for the real enemy, the proletariat, power would like to refuse it even the *status* of enemy: if workers declare themselves to be against this demented terrorism, the “they are with the State”, if they are against the State, then “they are terrorists”, that is to say enemies of the common good, *public enemies*. And against a public enemy, everything is permitted, everything is authorised.”
Revolutionary Sect Communiqué: http://www.tanea.gr/default.asp?pid=2&ct=1&artid=4586575
If anyone wants to do a translation…Google Translate is pretty rough.
so now we can prove ya’re shit. H.J. Klein was never in RAF; he was a member of Revolutionary Cells
Whatever. A small factual error… however, Sanguinetti was in the SI (See “On Terrorism”), and his critique is as valid now as it was then, so go blow it out your arse!
These idiots are definitly not maoists. In their texts there is no grain of marxist ideology. They are a kind of nihilistic anarchists. They hate the working class. Their ideology reminds me in some aspects of the conservative revolutionary movement in Germany in the Weimar Republic. In their communiqué they write: ““As for the financial crisis and the whining of society about the bleak future, we do not give a damn. We don’t care about a world that protests the new unbearable economic measures without first having rebelled against the cheapness of the meaning of life inside the system; it deserves its fate. … Today’s urban guerillas must overcome the legacy of the socialist proletariat and proclaim as a revolutionary subject they themselves, their comrades and all those who actively deny the coup of power in our lives, giving a substantial advantage to life and not economic analysis.”
Communique translated into english here:
http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2010/08/sect-of-revolutionaries-claims.html
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