Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 6

8 Changing EU-politics and peoples’ governments ...................... 41 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 9 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 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 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