To have a revolution you need revolutionaries – if they exist, let them rouse the People.
To change everything, to overturn the economic and social system that is, the aforementioned revolution is required.
To have a military coup, that is a different story…
Let’s take things from the start though. In our age, if revolutions take place, they don’t happen with Molotov cocktails, crow bars and looting. The police arrest the revolutionaries in the dozens, whenever it wants.
Military coups can occur and succeed – under conditions.
Take Greece for example. The coup in 1967 was successful for the following reasons:
First, because the people were divided, with the victors of the Civil War willingly implementing far right propaganda.
Second, because during that period, the supreme ruler who was young and inexperienced, was arrested with everything that followed.
Third, because the coup was supported by foreign powers, which overthrew the Junta in 1974 just like they installed it in power in 1967.
Different times, different ethics. These days the apologists of absolutism are nearly extinct. Even if there are anti-democratic minorities, they are marginal. In our country the serpent’s egg hatched a long time ago. There is no government coup. The army is in its place and there are no foreign consultants…
Setting aside Hitler’s admirers, we must safeguard the State.
Laws exist. They only need to be implemented.
Stavros P. Psycharis
