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Christos Memos
In Athens, on 6 December 2008, a policeman shot 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos incold blood and killed him. After the killing, spontaneous protests began in the Greekcapital and within days the insurrection had spread all over Greece. Radical actions tookplace even in the more remote and politically conservative areas. The Greek insurrectionwas not an isolated and temporary episode, nor an abstraction. This essay reflects on therevolt and endeavours to shed light on the context in which it broke out. It considers itas a result of the crisis of capital and neoliberal values and, at the same time, of ournegation of capital and its state — the crisis of capital being produced by our strugglesand refusal to identify ourselves with neoliberal norms and values. Considereddialectically, the crisis intensifies our struggles and reproduces the crisis of identificationwith capitalist bearings.
