This book began to be written when the 17 November organization was dismantled, became a stable front-page story, and transformed from a chronic political issue into an object of journalistic excesses, to which the broadcast media in Greece are prone.

Thus, Left Terrorism, Democracy and the State is not just another collection of journalistic texts about terrorism, as described and analyzed for the television audience: it is rather a book that is "out of time"; it is a theoretical and historical analysis of the phenomenon of terrorism, an attempt to define it and place it among the other structural problems of society, one of which is, after all, the functioning of the media.

The aim is to open a discussion about the nature of leftist terrorism, its ideological roots, its delusions and its ethics (or lack thereof, its distortions), as well as the kind of authoritarian democracy that tends to be created in the wake of the dismantling of terrorist organizations.

The central issue of the book is leftist terrorism because the authors have always been in the field of the Left, so they are familiar with the ideas, experiences, mentality, culture, aesthetics, logic, and the pitfalls of logic - if not the monstrous absurdities - the ethics and emotions of this particular faction.

The book attempts to provide some information about the manifestations, forms, and goals of leftist terrorism over time: in fact, it seeks to trace the evolution of class hatred and hatred in general, within class society, whether it was totalitarian and tyrannical regimes (Russia) or liberal democracies (USA).

In this retrospective and analysis, the questions always lurk: What is the State? Does the State have a "center"? How much State do we need? How much do terrorist actions impact the State? Did Kurt Vonnegut perhaps have a point when he said: "I believe we can achieve peace, prosperity, and happiness. In other words, am I an idiot?"