Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Essay on Left Strategy Left Strategy - 04/2017 | Page 4

ing after the phantom to transform Eu-
rope into a fully-fledged democratic conti-
nent featuring a capitalistically sound Un-
ion of sovereign nation states. A “Democ-
racy Movement for Saving the Capitalism
and the Nation States in Europe” is an
emancipatory fake, is political imposture.
We have to judge the crises and the politi-
cal and economic dangers for Europe in a
much wider context.
On Dooming World Financial
Capitalism
Scientific evidence and insistent warnings
are confirmed by humanitarian, war and
nature disasters around the globe. Capital-
ism is not slowly declining but suffocating
on its own rampant dynamics.
Around the world operating, economic
players, a global network of finance capi-
talism and worldwide IT monster compa-
nies have left behind their former national
affiliations or have developed from the
start beyond and above of a special na-
tion-state straightjacket.
Nation states are losing more and more
decision-making authority. They are his-
torically outlived and instrumentalized by
the new global centres of power which no
longer differentiate between” national”
and “overseas”, between “WE” and
“THEM”.
They can only exist by launching an al-
ready raging Economic World War against
each other for supremacy. Top financial
and economic war lords strive for nothing
else but the rise of their business figures
and just care for their special balance
sheets. Their superpower and hegemonial
policies leave behind scorched earth in
terms of world nutrition, world climate,
world resources, billions of war, climate
and poverty driven refugees.
They will generate the final breakdown of
the world economy in ever deepening cri-
ses as well as cause the collapse of plane-
tary ecological, humanitarian, geological
and climatic systems,
Forced by the inherent logic of their eco-
nomic system they will push the world
towards a global abyss - except the peo-
ples of the world hinder them in so doing
by suspending their perverse financial sys-
tem.
A Vision on Realistic Grounds
Two columns constitute modern Western
civilisation. Firstly nation states and na-
tionalism mixed up with democratic illu-
sions; secondly the absolute validity of
private property providing the proprietor
with an unfettered power of disposal on
matters and men in his possession and
hence under his command.
We cannot hope to change the way of
world financial and monopolistic capital-
ism into the abyss by repairing, reforming,
or stabilizing it from within according to its
rules – as Varoufakis and DIEM25 are in-
tending. We have to cut a Gordian Knot by
fighting the national “WE’s” as well as
joining and building up a global front
against global, financial capitalism.
We also have to overstep the holy of ho-
lies of their capitalist world: the right to
rule and command by the legally sacro-
sanct private property.
We must end the basic shape of a world
separating immense wealth in the hands
of a tiny propertied minority on one side
and billions of disfranchised, their living
conditions threatened people worldwide
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