Patras: The book by Kostis Karpozilos “Greek Communism: A Transnational History (1912-1974)” is presented at Pixelbooks

Antipodes Publications and Pixelbooks Bookstore invite us to the presentation of Kostis Karpozilos’ book “Greek Communism: A Transnational History (1912-1974)” on Wednesday, October 16 at 8:30 p.m.

The author and doctor/director of ESY Tasos Giakoumis will talk about the book. An audience discussion will follow.

“We call communism the real movement that abolishes the present state of things.” Starting from this phrase of Marx and Engels, Kostis Karpozilos deals with the history of Greek communism in the 20th century, focusing on the “real movement” of its people and tracing its multiple geographies. The result is a compelling narrative starring revolutionary travelers, expatriate intellectuals, refugees and immigrants, people who cross the symbolic and literal borders of the nation. Ottoman and Greek Thessaloniki, Constantinople, the refugee cities of Greece, Moscow and the Greek-speaking communities of the Black Sea between the wars, the trenches of the Spanish Civil War, the Paris of the Popular Front, the Middle East during the war years, Bucharest and the Tashkent of political refugees, the capitalist metropolises in the years of the dictatorship compose a transnational history of Greek communism. And the thread that unites them is the ceaseless movement of those who felt that class constraints and the status of exploitation were not the self-evident condition of existence, the lives of revolutionary wandering that did not fit into a national territory.