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7 Repairing capitalism in Europe?
Yanis, I deem it beneath your dignity to speak of class struggle in the
cited flippant way. Nobody can start or stop class struggle, which is
omnipresent. Worldwide the working people and the underdevel-
oped areas of the globe are continuously suffering from heaviest at-
tacks. Isn’t it true right now for Greece or Italy or Spain as well? You
plan to stabilize the European system of the peoples’ capitalist boss-
es without bothering them with class struggle while repairing the sys-
tem. After they will be well off again, stabilized by your advice, you
recommend starting to fight class conflicts again. This nonsense can’t
be in your mind, while you fancy yourself left, can it? You mention
the “left vs. right thing”. If you think of faction fights within the
movements I can reassure you: mostly they have less to do with “the
class conflict” but the more with petty-bourgeois, self-important
bickering.
Can capitalism be stabilized at all? It can be realigned after a crisis,
resp. the crisis effects are realigning by themselves. It was temporari-
ly stabilized in consequence of the World Wars and in the wake of
the Great Depression of 1929. Nowadays crises are a result of ubiqui-
tous, ruthless rivalry between the strongest economies (G7 to G20).
These are positioned in actual spheres of interest and established as
economic blocks captained by internationally operating banks and
trusts. After the global financial and economic crisis of 2007-09 world
economy rebounded imbalanced. The process of general economic
recuperation is characterized by new disparities. Crises produce win-
ners and losers. If you stabilize one economy or a global economic
block it would be at the expense of other elements of world econo-
my. You cannot achieve a European island of stability in a sea of an
Economic World War (EcWW).
That is why your approach to the crisis of capitalism in Europe is af-
flicted with a methodological flaw. Europe is insolubly enmeshed in
world finances and world economy. It is embedded in worldwide
competition with the USA and their Middle- and South American
backyards, the Asian world and the rests of the Second world econ-
omies. The EU has been constructed as a powerful block in the eco-
nomic world races. In short, Europe can only be understood as an ac-
tive part of world economy. The banking, debt, investment, and so-
cial crises in this part of the world are no European specialities but
threats to the peoples all over the world in different degrees and
manifestations. It is our task to call for international, transcontinental
solidarity of the peoples against the crisis terrors of worldwide fi-
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