Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 61
10 We need a strategy on realistic grounds
final decisions of all means of production and facilities, they have
never worked for or even been in.
I deprive them of the right to buy manpower, to decide on the
fate of men and women and their families just because they hap-
pen to own everything privately.
And I deprive them of the right to ruin nature, the basis to exist
for billions of people worldwide, for reasons of capital accumula-
tion.
These are global, not narrow European issues. That is what I mean by
cutting the Gordian Knot.
I am able to refer even to the American Declaration of Independence
that demands in 1776:
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happi-
ness. … But when a long train of abuse and usurpation, pursu-
ing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them
[the people] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new
Guards of their future security.”
The social right of resistance implies to take the capital from those
who stock and withhold it from those who need it to survive and live
in dignity. To get it straight: “To take it“ does not stand for “repur-
chase” but for socialisation without compensation. Firstly, a people’s
government has to prevent financial sharks from further use it for
speculating and gambling to the detriment of those who have origi-
nally worked hard for it. Secondly, it has to use redundant funds to
solve urgent social problems in our own countries, on European level
and on a global scope.
That is why an emancipatory, radical movement must not be restrict-
ed to a European perspective, trying to strengthen Euro-nationalism.
Victories on this level automatically produce losing and suffering
peoples in other parts of the world. There are no peoples in the
world including the European and the American ones who will profit
from a strong Euro-capitalistic block or a US-superpower to win bat-
tles in the EcWW. Neither European integration nor disintegration in
the course of the EcWW does touch upon European peoples’ inter-
ests. It is our task to develop global alternatives and for all peoples
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