Melbourne-based community group, Democritus Worker’s League, uploaded a poster-commentary on social media on the occasion of this year’s 200th anniversary of the Greek revolution.

The pictured artwork, bearing the inscription “1821-2021 – 200 years of stray dogs” depicts Greece as a female figure in traditional costume, her body at the mercy of eight dogs.

Each dog is named after problematic ideologies and conditions that are often referred to by Greeks as the country’s long-standing woes.

The ‘stray dogs’ bear the names: corruption, capitalism, profusion of public servants, religious obscurantism, ‘rousfetia’, tax evasion, ecological vandalism and wasteful spending.

The post that went up on their Facebook page on Friday did not go unnoticed having already garnered initial reactions from community members.

Journalist Kostas Karamarkos reposted the picture, captioned “Ideology, identity, sociology, politics, aesthetics, name it. Perceptions of the Greek Bicentennial, (celebrating the declaration of the War of Independence in March 1821, against the Ottomans), by the Melbourne based and marginalized nowadays Communist Greek-Australian left[…]

The post was welcomed by academic Dr Vasilis Adrahtas who is also Secretary of the National Committee Of The Archdiocese Of Australia for the celebration of the 200th anniversary.

Mr Adrahtas commented that the poster is “great” praising Democritus for their work and noting:

“But it could be perfect, were there not a stray dog missing: party-faction politics.”

Democritus was founded in 1935 in Melbourne by first generation Greek migrants of left ideologies.

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