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abolitionmedia<p><strong>Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis: Attention! The Lackeys of Counter-Revolution Circulate Among Us</strong></p><p></p><p>On Saturday, April 5th, a large group of relatives of victims of state and parastate murders and state-capitalist massacres are about to meet in a public debate. The whole social movement welcomes such a broad manifestation with joy and humility. The coordination of the discussion was assigned to two journalists, one of whom, driven by his demonstrated ideological-political commitment to the defense of the bourgeois regime, has contributed in the recent past to the policy of criminal extermination of the people of the social resistance in general and me in particular for my political commitment to the guerrilla social struggle and its defense against the bourgeoisie state judges. For this he has been publicly denounced (<a href="https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1622067/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">athens.indymedia.org/post/1622</span><span class="invisible">067/</span></a>). Writing political articles about the second instance trial against the Revolutionary Self-Defense Organization and the Holargos case, he boldly sided with the policy of criminal repression of the revolutionary struggle, mocking the expression of guerrilla discourse in the courtroom, sucking up to the judges, advocating the “democratic” condemnation of the “guilty”, exaggerating the false objectivity that bourgeois criminal terrorism wears like a purifying coat and applauding the constant judicial attack for the depoliticization of the counter-revolutionary trial, the depoliticization of the disputed issues and the depoliticization of the subject to be exterminated.</p><p>What contribution to the public debate on social justice can a sculptural whistleblower dedicated to the Leviathan of the state-capitalist complex have? His invitation already gives movement justification and new energy to his dirty role. The extremes of the political assimilation of the antagonistic mindset into counter-revolutionary terrorism shift deeper into Leviathan, as the central position in the debate has been taken over by an ideological agent of special duties, who defends the judiciary, not only as a regulator of social justice in general, but as a “democratic” institution for the extermination of the armed movement. The organizers, masquerading as libertarians in the political arena, bring the butcher’s cradle to welcome the slaughterhouses. Now, it is reasonable that the sculptor of the counter-revolution will not mock the relatives of the victims for subjecting the judges to “procedural torture”, as he did against an armed militant, but he is here to validate the class-political competence of state judges to render justice, to punish the illegality according to bourgeois institutions, to define objectivity, to conduct a “fair trial”. Assistance in the depoliticization of counter-revolutionary trials is a vanguard in assisting in the conversion of the politicization of social anger, towards assimilation into the institutions of the regime and its defusement. A person who acts on the position that he has “closed his accounts” with revolutionary political ideas and ridicules the revolutionaries at a time when the judicial priesthood of anti-proletarian, anti-social and counter-revolutionary terrorism is fighting with dignity, can today intervene in the mass movement for state-capitalist massacres, only to de-revolutionize the issues at hand. To cause confusion, to instill loyalty and discord in the social movement, to introduce embankments to the common prospective path for the overthrow of genocidal class domination. His position next to the regime’s institutional complex then and now, a position that at that time called for the condemnation of the “guilty” of the revolutionary social struggle having first separated the armed and the unarmed ideas, today is a position of covering up the radical class-political causes of the political massacres, the “why?”, and the self-disguise of the institutional network of their legitimacy and cover-up. Because the truth that the people are looking for comes only through their subversive struggle, while reinvestment in universally discredited bourgeois institutions only brings terrorist silencing orders and new massacres.</p><p>The organizing political group should have known, if not in its entirety, the identity of the parastate journalist in question, since some of its cadres participated in procedures of support in the trial of the Holargos case – Revolutionary Self-Defense Organization. Those in the know, by placing the whistleblower among the bloody people of the social movement, have consciously assumed responsibility for an upgrade of provoking conflicts within the movement, something that the whistleblower had attempted. Nice social federalists! If they had at least a little honesty, they would not have called the apologist of the regime’s terrorism who wears the mask of the movement, they would have called directly Theodorikakos (former KKE), who rushed to embrace the murderers of Nikos Sambanis, they would have called Floridis (former PASOK), the rapporteur of the last penal code, they would have called the proud fascist Voridis.</p><p>It should be noted, apart from the prominent political hospitality of the sycophantic reporter in the lively dialogue of the resisting social subject, his name decorated with militant rhetoric was projected in the eminently open and federalist structure of the libertarian movement, in Athens Indymedia. The media’s management team cannot control the history of every person for whom a well-known political figure takes responsibility. Federalism is built on mutual trust. However, this raises political responsibilities and requires prudence. The depravity of opportunist arbitrariness must find its wall.</p><p>Parenthetically, the OmniaTV channel participates in the same event, members of which had been at the forefront of the reproduction of the imperialist and governmental terrorist propaganda of anti-health fascism and biotechnocratic colonialism on the social body. Fascism always has two legs: one of the traditional right and one of social democracy.</p><p>Bourgeois democracy does not prevent anyone from becoming the tail of the PASOK-SYRIZA party. It is the duty of anarchists not to allow the current insurrectionary movement to be driven in the teeth of reformism. The dirty reactionary strategy that exploits the libertarian struggles has a future only along the lines of parainstitutionalism and will sink with it. The revolutionary organization of anarchists is the only hope of a way out of the shackle and the slaughterhouse.</p><p>Together with those who come forward in search of justice against state and parastate crimes. Not even an inch of social ground for the reformist gravediggers.</p><p>There is no peace without justice</p><p>Scumbag snitch journalists</p><p>Thugs, opportunists, filth</p><p>Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis</p><p>3 April 2025</p><p>Domokos Prison</p><p><em>Source: <a href="https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/dimitris-chatzivasileiadis-prosochi-oi-lakedes-tis-antepanastasis-kykloforoyn-anamesa-mas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/dimitris-chatzivasileiadis-prosochi-oi-lakedes-tis-antepanastasis-kykloforoyn-anamesa-mas/</a></em></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18378" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">18378</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anarchist-prisoners/" target="_blank">#AnarchistPrisoners</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/counter-revolution/" target="_blank">#counterRevolution</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/dimitris-chatzivasiliadis/" target="_blank">#DimitrisChatzivasiliadis</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/europe/" target="_blank">#europe</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/greece/" target="_blank">#greece</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/reformism/" target="_blank">#reformism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/revolutionary-self-defense/" target="_blank">#revolutionarySelfDefense</a></p>
babakofi<p>Kshama <a href="https://union.place/tags/Sawant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sawant</span></a> On Jamaal Bowman's "Sleazy" Fealty to the <a href="https://union.place/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a><br><a href="https://union.place/tags/bowman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bowman</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/squad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>squad</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/nogatekeepers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nogatekeepers</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/hopium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hopium</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/reformism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reformism</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/massmovements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>massmovements</span></a><br><a href="https://youtu.be/zH8PSTD_aEs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/zH8PSTD_aEs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>Attention Democratic Socialists, Social Democrats, and all other reformist socialists:</p><p>Capitalists will not give up their power voluntarily. Capitalism will not be abolished peacefully. The working class must remove capitalists from power and abolished capitalism by force.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democraticsocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democraticsocialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reformism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reformism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"‘Liberal’ and ‘capitalist’ paired as a hyphenated compound word seems like an oxymoron, leaving one to wonder, what do civil liberties and democracy have to do with an economic system that often infringes on the aforementioned liberal defining characteristics? Well, A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms by Giampaolo Conte analyzes the historical scope of capitalist reforms, particularly through the British economy, under the guise of liberalism from the nineteenth century and beyond. In just four chapters, while grazing the philosophy of Marxism through figures like Antonio Gramsci, Conte offers a clarifying historical perspective on the evolution of capitalist reforms. Conte’s engagement in this historical project reignites a conversation on the ability of capitalism, a system that thrives on exploitation and violence, to textually morph into an ostensibly paradoxical philosophy, that is, liberalism, to gain submission (domestically and internationally), expand dominance and accumulate capital. A History of Capitalist Transformation displays how domestic social classes and semi-peripheral states (developing nations) have both fallen prey to the expansion of internal and external capitalist reforms. According to Conte, the action of falling prey is caused by the presentation of liberal-capitalist reforms as they are presented through the cultural, moral and civic values of liberalism and not the violent and individualist values of capitalism (38)."</p><p><a href="https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/21887_history-of-capitalist-transformation-a-critique-of-liberal-capitalist-reforms-by-giampaolo-conte-reviewed-by-julia-bradley/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">marxandphilosophy.org.uk/revie</span><span class="invisible">ws/21887_history-of-capitalist-transformation-a-critique-of-liberal-capitalist-reforms-by-giampaolo-conte-reviewed-by-julia-bradley/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/EconomicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicHistory</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Reformism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reformism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a></p>
John Wilson WSWS<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a>, National <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/opportunism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opportunism</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reformism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reformism</span></a> (PSOL) versus <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> (ICFI)</p><p>Brazilian pseudo-lefts work to divert campaign to cut workweek into dead end of parliamentary politics <br>- World Socialist Web Site<br><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/30/qvel-d30.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/3</span><span class="invisible">0/qvel-d30.html</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>Bernie Sanders is a joke, and he is a joke because he is a reformist. Reformism always starts off as "we can change the system from the inside" and quickly results in these idealistic fools (reformists) being absorbed into the capitalist system that they vowed to defeat. Revolution is the only solution. Don't trust Bernie Sanders.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BernieSanders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reformism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reformism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communism</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@Faket" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Faket</span></a></span></p><p>You're wrong. There are socialists who advocate for reformism, but socialism itself is not reformist. Socialism is the collective control and ownership of the means of production either directly or through state ownership. Socialism can also be revolutionary and advocate for a state-owned economy.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reformism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reformism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a></p>
Küpa<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> is not <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reformism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>reformism</span></a> of the bourgeois institutions</p>