Georgios Skliros

Georgios Konstantinides (1878–1919, nom de plume Skliros, Greek: Γεώργιος Κωνσταντινίδης, «Σκληρός») was an early Greek socialist intellectual and journalist.[1] Describing contemporary reality, he based his work on the class stratification of society and, analyzing Greek society, using Marxist methods. Until his death he was considered to be “the most significant Greek Marxist”.[2]

Georgios Skliros
Γεώργιος Κωνσταντινίδης
Georgios Skliros (date unknown)
Born
Georgios Konstantinides

1878
Trebizond
Died24 December 1919
Alexandria
Other namesSkliros «Σκληρός»

Biography

Skleros was born to a middle-class family of Trebizond in Ottoman Pontus, and took a typical education and cosmopolitan outlook for the city and its Greek quarter of that age, and in his younger years travelled to Odessa in Russia to work as a merchant. Later he left for Moscow, where he engaged in medical studies, in 1904, at the University of Moscow. The following year he got involved in the revolutionary movement, under the influence of Georgi Plekhanov,[3] taking up the pseudonym of "Skliros" ("Severe"). A series of problems with the Tsarist establishment drove him to Estonia and then to Jena in Germany. There, as representative of Marxist theory he met with Dimitris Glinos in the "Filiki Prodevtiki Enosi" ("Friendly Progressive Unity"), a student society oriented in a socialist direction.[4]

Skleros, suffering from tuberculosis, then moved to and lived in Alexandria, where he died in 1919.

Works
  • Το Κοινωνικόν μας Ζήτημα (Our Common Goal, 1907)
  • Η Φιλοσοφία του Πολέμου και της Ειρήνης (The Philosophy of War and of Peace)
  • Σύγχρονα Προβλήματα του Ελληνισμού (Contemporary Problems in Hellenism)
  • Μελέτες - παρεμβάσεις στα πολιτικά και πολιτιστικά δρώμενα (Plans - Interventions in Politics and Political Roles)

References
  1. 90 Χρόνια Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, Η σφραγίδα του στη Λογοτεχνία, Μηνιαίο Ένθετο για το Βιβλίο και τη Λογοτεχνία - Τεύχος 9 - Κυριακή 25 Νοέμβρη 2007
  2. "Σοσιαλιστική σκέψη και σοσιαλιστικές κινήσεις των φοιτητών των Αθηναϊκών ΑΕΙ (1875-1922) Διδακτορική διατριβή Ιωάννινα 2006 στο Κόκκινη Βιβλιοθήκη". Archived from the original on 2013-09-10. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  3. Στο ίδιο Archived 2013-09-10 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. Φίλιππος Ηλιού, «Δημήτρης Γληνός: Από την εκπαιδευτική μεταρρύθμιση στην κοινωνική επανάσταση», εφ. Τα Νέα, 8/2/2000.
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