Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 54

9 Summing up: from DIEM to SEUCAM?
9 Summing up: from DIEM to SEUCAM?
Democracy in Europe is impossible as long as almighty global finance-
capitalist players, IMF’s, American, Japanese and European Central
Banks and their subsidiaries in nation states, multinational globally
performing cartels (oil, automotive, shipping, etc.) as well as military
complexes have the power to force the world under their heels. We
have seen that democracy is incompatible with capitalistic principles
and social practice. That is why all modern states of the western
make are plutocratic oligarchies, disguised as representative democ-
racies. They maintain this camouflage as long as they succeed to
throw dust into the common men’s eyes and make them believe to
have a say in fundamental decisions. When during constantly deep-
ening systemic crises the oligarchies in disguise can no longer pre-
tend democratic government, states are shifted to open populist,
mostly nationalist, authoritarian regimes. This downward spiral re-
sults from the system inherent overheating of global capitalism. It
resembles a nuclear power plant out of control inevitably approach-
ing the worst case scenario.
Therefore a “Democracy in Europe movement” with the central slo-
gan: “Democratise Europe!” supplemented by capitalism stabilizing
policies is a fake! My scrutiny over DIEM’s basics has brought into
light an ordinary Social Democratic reform program for saving Euro-
pean capitalism from itself. Though pan-European and grass-roots
democratically presented this program exploits thousands of deeply
worried and ready to fight activists to back as their entourage a “Long
March through the EU Institutions” of leading experts and political
insiders. Democratisation is confused with the LOMATI to gain ad-
ministrative political power in an existing and unchanged EU mon-
ster.
DIEM25 in the developing shape is not what so many activists think it
to be: it is hardly an emancipatory or radical democratic movement
that is able to give unvarnished perspective to people’s resistance
and fights all over Europe.
DIEM25 is obviously the result of green table constructions based on
your professorial expertise on the economic crisis of Europe, sadly
meant to advise the EU establishment how to repair the rotten sys-
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