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The Comrade is Violent: Liberal Discourses of Violence in Anti-austerity Greece

The article explores the emergence of a liberal hegemonic discourse promoting relations of equivalence between so called “left wing violence” in relation to its fascist counterpart. In positioning the politics of violence, and the lack of civic politics in Greece, as a diachronic historico-political problem, the discourse too neatly positions left-wing struggles as a foe of the democratic process. Drawing from a discourse analysis of media representations in Greece from the beginning of the electoral period in April 2012 and onwards, the article critically challenges the limits of this hegemonic discourse.