Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 53

8 Changing EU-politics and peoples’ governments
finitively been falsified by social practice and need not to be ruminat-
ed again and again.
The longer term goal:
This brings us to the third step of DIEM25 perspectives, the longer
term strategic goal: “A European Constitution in order to transform
Europe into a fully-fledged democracy.” 43 On Volksbühne you out-
lined this topic with the words:
“Our longer term goal once Europe’s various crises have been
stabilized is to convene a constitutional assembly where Euro-
peans will deliberate on how to bring forth by 2025 an authen-
tic European democracy … and to do this we have two or three
years to establish a constitutional assembly …” 44
For me this approach is an artificial construction of intellectual con-
trivers, a pure academic invention. Again I might be able to give ad-
vice as a historian. At all times constitutional assemblies followed
revolutionary revolts or civil wars. After the fall of an old regime the
victors and their social-political camp had to reorganize comprehen-
sively the distribution of social power in accordance with their own
interests. They formed a social administration and stately structure
to safeguard new social relations. During the recent centuries the
new social realities were laid down in constitutions, which defined
the basic ideology and morals of a changed world as well as estab-
lished new executive, legislative, and judicial authorities.
There is no historical precedent for a constitution of “an authentic
European democracy” that emerged from the drawing board of a
group of deliberating supposedly intellectual people qualified by be-
ing Europeans. This DIEM25 project cannot constitute a new and bet-
ter world that has not been emerged from history yet. It can only be
meant to cement a provisionally repaired, historically outlived system
of European nation states, which has proved to be a scourge of man-
kind, - in Europe as well as everywhere on the globe.
43 Association Statutes Art. 5, last priority.
44 Varoufakis, Speech at Volksbühne (youtube, 02.2016, 21:39 – 22:12).
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