Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr)
Publication date: August 2, 2016
Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)
In 1901 Lenin, then the budding Marxist agitator preparing for the revolution asked what was to be done because of “burning questions of our movement.” One hundred and fifteen years later we can ask burning questions about what to do with a disintegrating “EUtopia,” with the Islamist war surge in Europe, with both “indigenous” and “refugee” Moslems going rampant with axes, hatchets, and bombs, but, above all, with political and social elites ignorant on how to defeat the attack and how to protect and strengthen what we still (reluctantly) continue to recognize as Western civilization and its values...Read more