Though, for Greek conditions, perhaps the better US parallel is the post-Civil-War period: that was thorough and lasted for decades.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

The cynicism and the corryption has come back to bite its originators. The new underclass, in all its shapes and forms, isn't smiling. Really I can't emphasize strongly enough how different the composition of the violent crowd is from the usual anarchist mobs.

I also add that there is accumulating evidence that some of the protesters are on the police payroll. Stelios Kouloglou, a respected journalist and head of the independent online tvxs report that they saw young men with helmets, hoods and wrenches, chatting and mingling with the police outside a down-town district. There's a blurry cell-phone photo as evidence along with the eye-witness testimony here:

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake