Padua for Greek people, July 3, 2015. Demotix/Ferdinando Piezza. All rights reserved.It has been a very dark week for Greece, and for Europe too. A week where our hopes for an alternative European Union violently collapsed, giving way to a dystopian present that for most Greeks, after five years of brutally imposed austerity is all the more unbearable.
The unprecedented showcase of power and utter humiliation by Europe’s criminal-gangs-in-suits seems to have buried our hopes in the ground. Or has it? What can be learned from this before we rise up again?
First, the quasi-Orientalist attack on Greece, an attack driven by neo-colonial logics of financial capital and executed through popular discourse and cultural narratives, should by now be indisputable. It is an attack that has quite forcefully and relentlessly succeeded in portraying Greeks as morally inferior subjects worthy of their own fate.
