Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 58

10 We need a strategy on realistic grounds
corrupt political stooges in all national administrations and interna-
tional institutions.
10.2 On the raging EcWW
This economic and political wolf pack is the protagonist of an alr eady
raging Economic World War (EcWW) waged against each other for
economic and political supremacy. Besides the dooming historical
end of nation states there is another important impact of globalisa-
tion. The great powers have military juggernauts for global cam-
paigns at their disposal they can make use of to intervene in remoter
regions. They fuel proxy wars with military equipment, and above all
hedge the prospering business of armament industries by appropri-
ate politics and export licences. A hot war between the leading pow-
ers from G 7 to G20 is nearly impossible today because they would
hit themselves everywhere. They would destroy the production sides
of corporations they are holding shares of or that are possessed by
fellow countrymen. To eliminate finance centres of the international
oligarchy, hubs of global finance networking, would immediately
cause the general economic breakdown. In the upper sphere of top
business, investment banking, and real production in terms of inter-
national division of labour you can no longer differentiate between
”national” and “overseas”, between “WE” and “THEM”.
Nowadays crises are principally a result of the current EcWW which
rages between the strongest economies and their actual spheres of
interest. The economic war opponents are each captained by inter-
nationally operating major banks and trusts. The EcWW has become
definitively multilateral by rising tiger and challenging former second
world economies. In the end we face a competitive, egoistic, detri-
mental struggle with all means of each against all, North against
South and West against East. The balance of economic and political
power is constantly shifting. The world has proved finite in all re-
spects. Therefore the economic warring parties can only gain grounds
at direct cost of their competitors. Financial and economic war lords
can care for nothing else but their own growth, their economic fig-
ures rising, forcing things to happen to their interests without any
scruples by all legal or illegal methods, by bribing or menacing, im-
posing embargos or intervene militantly. Their superpower politics
leave behind scorched earth in terms of world nutrition, world cli-
mate, world resources, and billions of war, climate and poverty driv-
en refugees.
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