Grexodus: Notes for a Non-strategic Strategy

Since 2010 Greece is in unprecedented financial crisis and turmoil due to its public debt. This led to a wave of social unrest and eventually to the ascension of SYRIZA to power. It was practically the first time when the non-socialist Left formed a government in a European country. These developments generated worldwide interest and they have been closely watched by both mainstream and alternative media. Their reports convey intense affect: hope curiosity fear enmity disappointment … according to who or when is speaking. Thus a large corpus of relevant texts already exists. These often seem a fruit of projection: people adapt and translate what they see to a pre-existing familiar vocabulary. This is inevitable; any discourse on politics involves a work of translation even when it is pronounced in the native language. This book provides its own version based on a view from the inside or from between the inside and the outside which attempts to approach the political (and the economical –to the extent we can distinguish them) from a point of view of the materialism of the encounter without reducing them to moralism legalism militarism or any other essentialism.