Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 59

10 We need a strategy on realistic grounds 10.3 Cutting the Gordian Knot of capitalist rule All attempts to find a way out of the dangerously escalating situation on Planet Earth are inextricably bound up with two central aspects I have already mentioned above. The one is the problem around nations and nation states that con- centrates in a presumptuous, other peoples degrading national “WE”. The purpose behind is to form a national block by suppressing all an- tagonistic relations within a torn domestic society. The same is true for a Euro-nationalism featuring the EU and the Euro, which is block formation of an allegedly historically, culturally and economically su- perior old continent that hopes to defend its inherited worldwide importance. The other one is the absolute prevalence of private property provid- ing the proprietor with an unfettered power of disposal on things and men in his possession and hence under his command. This social dis- tribution pf power proved antagonistic to whatever attempts the have-nots masses made in history to decide on themselves. Both issues have to be taken as one. The national block in terms of the social mishmash-“WE” has always been at the often fatal com- mand of the propertied classes. The modern financial-capitalist own- ership and possession structures take advantage of an appropriate nation ideology. These two columns constitute modern civilisation. They underlie the ruthless cold EcWW. They will generate the final breakdown of world economy in ever deepening crises as well as the collapse of global ecological, humanitarian, geological and climatic systems, i f t h e p e o p l e s d o n o t h i n d e r t h e m i n s o d o - ing. The ruling classes in modern centuries were always forced to defend the two columns of their social order with all their ideological and political might. Sometimes lateral thinkers were even silenced by burning them at the stake or in NS times to shoot, gas or hang them. Academic elaborators of the appropriate thinking are legion. They concentrated in humanities (philosophers, historians and theologi- ans) and delivered the substance to obscure the common people’s minds. They made the private property a transcendental, eternal cat- egory. They apotheosized the ruling and leading heads - kings, em- perors, Führer, popes, but also party and revolution leaders, Marxist classics, etc. - to sacrosanct, heroic super-humans. They declared the nation and the state to be of divine origin. “Thank goodness”, there 53