It belonged to a subgenre of Marxism–Leninism and Trotskyism known as Archeio-Marxism (Archive-Marxism),[1] and appears to have been the last scion of that ideology, the sole Archio-Marxist remnant of the 1950s.
Before its formation, he had been a leader of the Greek Archio-Marxists, which had been one of the by far largest dissident communist movements in Greece during the early-to-mid-1930s, as members of Leon Trotsky's "Left Opposition".
[5] KAKE survived the dictatorship of General Ioannis Metaxas from 1936 onwards,[3] although Giatopoulos, accused by Trotsky of manifesting "the worst principles of individualism and anarchism",[6] ended up as a refugee abroad, for some time participating in the Spanish Civil War.
[3] Its final activities came with the 1951 Greek legislative election, where it received likewise negative results as back in 1936, after which it promptly dissolved.
[5] After his return from French exile in the 1950s, the long-time leader Dimitris Giotopoulos became a collaborator of the right-wing regime, cooperating in anti-communist activities.