Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 27

4 Capitalism vs. democracy
sions on the economic fate of the country. Ministers for Economic
Affairs are spending your tax money on bailing out rotten banks.
Saudi Arabia is getting military aircraft and tanks by decision of a
grand coalition government in favour for German armaments groups
and in the motherland of Western democracy the police have shot
another unarmed black citizen that day. Though the media and all
sorts of career politicians constantly try to talk you into this sort of
democracy you grasp bit by bit that you are not only a puppet worker
but also a puppet voter in an insipid game of democracy.
Beyond doubt, Noam Chomsky is absolutely right: There is no capital-
ist democracy!
4.2 One business party with factions called people’s parties
It is also very interesting to hear how Noam Chomsky describes the
US party system and gives a characteristic insight into American de-
mocracy in 2013:
“That the United States was a one-party state with a business
party that had two factions, the Democrats and the Republi-
cans. … But that’s not any more. The US is still one-party state,
the business party, but there is only one faction, and it is not
democrats, it is moderate republican. Today’s Democrats shift-
ed to the right.” 8
May be the party scene in old Europe is more colorful at the edges.
But in respect to so called major people’s parties (Christian Demo-
crats and Social Democrats, Tories and Labor) they do not differ basi-
cally from the US. In the end they both perform national politics to
serve capitalism whatever the costs …
 to defend the absolute power of disposal by private property and
the freedom of investment gambling,
 to ease the “heavy risk burdens” of internationally operating
banks,
 to pave the way for stock exchanges and financial centers fit for
global speculation,
 and to bring down strategically the unit production costs at the
expense of the working population to secure in this land export
offensives, which throttle the economies of South European debt-
8
Noam Chomsky: Democrats are really moderate Republicans (youtube, 09.10.2013).
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