8 Changing EU-politics and peoples’ governments
8 Changing EU-politics and peoples’ governments
8.1 Going for the Modest Proposal on a LOMATI
Yanis, the LOMATI will keep you inside the official rules of the EUregime and its administration you are going to challenge. As you consider the people to be a dull, silent and passive majority you will have to plan politics devoid of them and go ahead without them. You inevitably will set off for the“ Long March through the Institutions”( LOMATI). Step by step you climb up the ladder to the centres of power forming coalitions, winning elections, making yourself important within the structures, and staying honourable at all means. You need a backing organisation, party or movement for election and other campaigns. The higher you climb the more you get separated from your roots. At the end of the students’ movements in the early 1970s a number of student leaders started on the LOMATI 31. Their march regularly ended in the left, Social Democrat establishment as university professors. Another example for a LOMATI is the Green Party in Germany: from a radical green and anti-nuclear power movement to an established, state supportive party which provides regional Ministers and a Minister-President of a Federal state. Of all movements / parties in Europe Syriza and her government had moved forward for the people as far as possible inside the system. If you had mobilized the Greek people consistently( see sect. 6.2) against the Greek oligarchic financial system and its state debts the“ Empire would have struck back for sure”. The European plutocratic and pseudo-democratic member states would probably have favoured a coup d’ état in Greece. There are examples in history for hostile reactions to people’ s governments as they surpassed the tolerance limits of the ruling capitalist classes, so the Spanish Republic in the 1930s, the anti-oligarchic, liberated Cuba, or Chile’ s Socialist Party government headed by Salvador Allende, not to mention Vietnam, the Czechoslovakian reform movement of 1968, and, and, and. A LOMATI will hardly make for a people’ s government. Underpinning the ruling state it will end as its left fig leaf.
31 The term“ Long March Through the Institutions” was born at that time. It was derived from the Chinese Long March of the Chinese Red Army led by Mao Zedong in the course of the Chinese Civil War 1934-1935.
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