Letter from Greece: Brief notes on Revolt and Crisis in Greece and the Greek situation
Review of Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou, eds., *Revolt and crisis in Greece: Between a present yet to pass and a future still to come*
Oakland: AK Press & Occupied London, 2011
What is happening here exceeds us. (199)
THERE IS A BAD THEORETICAL HABIT common among leftists: the confirmation of revolutionary aspirations through an unmediated verification by the “facts” or “data.” The ghost of an “objective” reality obscures the effort to grasp the “concrete” as the combination of many abstractions and, instead, “a chaotic representation [Vorstellung] of the whole” (Marx) is preferred, offering a temporary foundation for self-affirmation and miraculously turning a “bad” reality into a “good” one.
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