After the restoration of democracy, universities became fiefdoms of left-wing student factions. Later, right-wing parties also created their own party factions. That is where they recruit their clientele and future leadership.

Whom do they recruit? The insecure, the inferior, the thugs, the empty shells, the show-offs, the uneducated. No intelligent and free student, except for the committed and the opportunists, would even think of joining a party clique.

For those who do not know, a stoura means a pen or a sheepfold. It is an enclosed space where the flock is kept.

The party clique wants obedient little people, little soldiers, without a personal identity. It wants UFOs - unidentified flying objects. The occasional exceptions prove the rule.

Joining the party clique comes with certain privileges. In the early years after the restoration of democracy, to get a girlfriend you had to belong to some left-wing clique; otherwise, it was hopeless. As time went on, there were other privileges too, such as: a) exam topics from "our" professors, b) free trips, c) free or almost free parties, celebrations, and entertainment, d) promotion into European programmes (Erasmus, etc.), e) advancement to postgraduate and doctoral studies.

Joining the left-wing party clique also brings obligations. These include indoctrination, party discipline, ideological confrontation and fights with opposing factions, banner-making, writing slogans, physical and verbal violence against students and professors who are not left-wing, and more. Other obligations include organization into groups and squads, and immediate action when needed, such as protests, marches, demonstrations, clashes with the police, and so on. Naturally, depending on the mission, the appropriate gear is also required, such as poles, clubs, stones, Molotov cocktails, and the like.

The overwhelming majority of left-wing professors who rose through the universities came from these left-wing party cliques and are half-educated. They are the ones who resist every effort to improve the universities.

Also, the overwhelming majority of party officials, primarily from left-wing and secondarily from right-wing parties, come from these university party cliques.

As has been shown, after roughly fifty years the model of the left-wing party clique has had results. For example:

First, the Left, through its propaganda, has managed to convince some naive citizens that it fights to improve public education. The truth is that it fights to wreck it.

Second, after the collapse of actually existing socialism, communist parties disappeared across Europe, except in Greece. Unfortunately, Greece follows with delay. Of course, it is the people who make and unmake parties, not some party priesthood, as happens in totalitarian regimes.

Third, part of the Left, SYRIZA, exploiting the disappointment and anger of citizens over the country's bankruptcy, managed to become government. A school and university occupier from the party clique became prime minister. The result showed that he governed worse than PASOK and the Right. Some of SYRIZA's "achievements": capital controls, mortgaging public property for 99 years, and adding roughly 80 billion euros to the country's debt.

It is worth remembering that, besides the universities, the Left first and the Right later tried to build party cliques in middle schools and high schools. Even in primary schools. This monstrosity lasted for some years and then collapsed. Their children turned their backs on them. Fortunately.

Of course, left-wing cunning and propaganda continue through committed teachers and professors. For example: schools receive circulars from the Ministry of Education about various anniversaries. Instead of telling the children what the Ministry recommends, these educators engage in their own party propaganda.

Left-wing cliques and left-wing thugs have wrecked the universities. Proof enough: the whole Left fights to preserve fascism and the wrecking of the universities.

All parties, and above all the left-wing ones, need to understand that the party clique in the universities does harm. Above all, it harms the minds and souls of the young.

Paul Marantos

marantosp@gmail.com