Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 46

7 Repairing capitalism in Europe?
Yanis, from the start for you the political aim of “Democratise Eu-
rope!” was a means to “Stabilize capitalism!” Indeed, you never saw
the need for “very long and serious deliberation”. A “fully fledged and
comprehensive” Version 4.0 of the “Modest Proposal for Resolving
the Eurozone Crisis” had been published by you, Holland and Gal-
braith in July 2013 already. Now the legal Association Statutes frankly
shift the “Modest Proposal” from an “Aim” (art. 4) to a “Priority” (art.
5), its relevance obviously being decided. That’s what it is all about:
“Use existing EU institutions and Treaties to bring about equi-
table and European solutions to Europe’s crisis of public debt,
banking, inadequate investments and rising poverty.” 28
As we learn by this crisis solution implies no new institutions no rede-
signing the Eurozone, no new rules, fiscal compacts, or troikas. 29 We
have to reset the course of the Brussels bureaucracy from within.
Now, the founding of a legal DIEM-identity reveals its sense: Sup-
ported by international celebrities a respectable public DIEM-
association is certainly best suited for winning elections, forming coa-
litions, and pursue policies within the untouched EU structures in
Brussels and Frankfurt.
The political to-dos named in the Association Statutes stay vague: “to
bring about…”, “to subject to the will …”, “to dismantle …”, “to re-
politicise the rule …” 30 The common political activist will ask right
away in each case: how? To answer the “HOWs” in accordance with
my own experiences: there is only one track known from history you
need such a legal, distinguished association for: the LOMATI.
28 DIEM25 Organising Principles, APPENDIX: The legal constitution …, art. 5 (“Priorities”).
29 See citation on page 43.
30 DIEM25 Organising Principles, APPENDIX: The legal constitution …, Art. 4 (“Aims”).
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