Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 6
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Changing EU-politics and peoples’ governments ...................... 41
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8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
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Going for the Modest Proposal on a LOMATI ...................................................... 41
On “the most significant democracy in Europe” .................................................. 42
. . . and on real people’s governments ................................................................. 42
On the DIEM25 LOMATI in particular ................................................................... 43
On DIEM25 strategy and tactics ........................................................................... 45
Summing up: from DIEM to SEUCAM? ..................................... 48
10 We need a strategy on realistic grounds .................................. 50
10.1 On the impending doom of capitalism ................................................................. 50
10.2 On the raging EcWW ............................................................................................ 52
10.3 Cutting the Gordian Knot of capitalist rule .......................................................... 53
11 Choosing the right track ........................................................... 57
11.1 On state debts crises ............................................................................................ 57
11.2 On the banking crisis ............................................................................................ 58
11.3 On the investment crisis ....................................................................................... 60
12 Strategic main goal: Eliminate financial capitalism ................... 63
12.1 The Taboo ............................................................................................................. 63
12.2 The modern version of the Taboo ........................................................................ 64
12.3 Abandon fictitious capital and fiat money! .......................................................... 65
13 Strategic goal: Eradicate war .................................................... 68
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13.2
13.3
13.4
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Bring down the military-industrial complex ......................................................... 68
Ban all export of weapons, military goods and spare parts ................................. 69
“Swords to ploughshares!” Transform the war industries................................... 69
The unholy Trinity crumbles ................................................................................. 70
Imagine there is war and nobody joins in? .......................................................... 71
14 Coming to the end ................................................................... 73
14.1 Preparing for hard times ...................................................................................... 73
14.2 What you are urgently needed for, Yanis ............................................................ 74