8 Changing EU-politics and peoples ’ governments
8 Changing EU-politics and peoples ’ governments
8.1 Going for the Modest Proposal on a LOMATI
Yanis , the LOMATI will keep you inside the official rules of the EUregime and its administration you are going to challenge . As you consider the people to be a dull , silent and passive majority you will have to plan politics devoid of them and go ahead without them . You inevitably will set off for the “ Long March through the Institutions ” ( LOMATI ). Step by step you climb up the ladder to the centres of power forming coalitions , winning elections , making yourself important within the structures , and staying honourable at all means . You need a backing organisation , party or movement for election and other campaigns . The higher you climb the more you get separated from your roots . At the end of the students ’ movements in the early 1970s a number of student leaders started on the LOMATI 31 . Their march regularly ended in the left , Social Democrat establishment as university professors . Another example for a LOMATI is the Green Party in Germany : from a radical green and anti-nuclear power movement to an established , state supportive party which provides regional Ministers and a Minister-President of a Federal state . Of all movements / parties in Europe Syriza and her government had moved forward for the people as far as possible inside the system . If you had mobilized the Greek people consistently ( see sect . 6.2 ) against the Greek oligarchic financial system and its state debts the “ Empire would have struck back for sure ”. The European plutocratic and pseudo-democratic member states would probably have favoured a coup d ’ état in Greece . There are examples in history for hostile reactions to people ’ s governments as they surpassed the tolerance limits of the ruling capitalist classes , so the Spanish Republic in the 1930s , the anti-oligarchic , liberated Cuba , or Chile ’ s Socialist Party government headed by Salvador Allende , not to mention Vietnam , the Czechoslovakian reform movement of 1968 , and , and , and . A LOMATI will hardly make for a people ’ s government . Underpinning the ruling state it will end as its left fig leaf .
31 The term “ Long March Through the Institutions ” was born at that time . It was derived from the Chinese Long March of the Chinese Red Army led by Mao Zedong in the course of the Chinese Civil War 1934-1935 .
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