10 We need a strategy on realistic grounds
have always been intellectuals, academics thinkers and fighters for the sub-classes cause who explained social matters rationally and in accordance with the social and historical realities.
To sum up what I have shown in previous sections. The private legal property was invented by the ancient Greeks and further on elaborated by the Romans in the historical course of state formation of the Western type. All legal systems are man-made and therefore adjustable to new social circumstances. A legal system to shelter the private property in ancient slave states still constitutes the basis of contemporary capitalist societies. The“ nation” has been imagined to back up ideologically the modern bourgeois-capitalist state, to define the borders of its domestic markets and the range of its political and legal dominion. Besides spreading democratic illusions nationalism is the most prominent ideology to disarm the unpropertied, dependently working classes and to make them modelling clay in the hands of an economic and political establishment.
The world is approaching the brink of the abyss. Sheer madness gains global ground: Immeasurable wealth and enormous funds are held back and stocked. A senseless financial economy. The rich, beautiful and greedy of a capitalist high society play games of chance in the ballroom of a global Titanic that rushes through a field of crisis bergs. The working crew and the masses of poor third class passengers of the below-deck get more and more worried of the highly dangerous situation. There is still time to stop the lunatic ride if the mechanics and engineers dare to stop the engines, the navigators dare to change course radically and the security personnel on board mustered up all their civil courage to deprive the bridge of its power. And then they will lock the doors of the ballroom and take over the vessel.
Yanis, you see? This is my vision, not of an“ ideal society” but of how to manage to preserve the globe from drowning. No Utopia but emergency planning:
� I deprive the plutocratic oligarchic, pseudo democratic stratum of the right to insist on a legal system that enables a destructive, parasitic, finance machinery to embezzle surplus values of the working people.
� I deprive them to be at the levers of power just because they present mutually written out title deed papers which guarantee their
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