Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 14

1 Me, my time and the beast of nationalism
business with rogue, oil controlling regimes like Saudi Arabia. No
beacon of Humanity but platforms for global players in a mad finance
world of billons of roving, superfluous capital in desperate search for
profitable investment in deflating economies hardly able to generate
any longer the decisive precondition for capitalism to survive:
growth! This European Union was never meant to be a democratic
platform or beacon to unite the peoples of Europe, and it never will
be. From the very beginning it was designed as a powerful economic
and political bloc to make European capitalism fit for globalised rat
races. Good grief, Yanis, what makes you bestow such a glorious halo
of humanitarianism upon Europe?
Do you still remember what we ordinary European citizens were told
when the Euro came in January 2002? Holding our starter kits in
hands we were declared united: Borders falling; Europe finally almost
grown together, everybody being friends with everybody united by
the Euro; a currency for the best of the people. All calculated rub-
bish! You show us in “And the Weak…?” why and how the implemen-
tation of the Euro came along and how we got cheated with this Eu-
ropean monetary union of big business, of financially betting and
gambling banks and funds. In 2008 at the latest, we awoke in a minia-
ture Bretton Woods Eurozone with Germany back in the lead of a
modern version of “European Großraumwirtschaft”, - this time with-
out instigating a World War but through the back door of history.
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