10 We need a strategy on realistic grounds
have always been intellectuals , academics thinkers and fighters for the sub-classes cause who explained social matters rationally and in accordance with the social and historical realities .
To sum up what I have shown in previous sections . The private legal property was invented by the ancient Greeks and further on elaborated by the Romans in the historical course of state formation of the Western type . All legal systems are man-made and therefore adjustable to new social circumstances . A legal system to shelter the private property in ancient slave states still constitutes the basis of contemporary capitalist societies . The “ nation ” has been imagined to back up ideologically the modern bourgeois-capitalist state , to define the borders of its domestic markets and the range of its political and legal dominion . Besides spreading democratic illusions nationalism is the most prominent ideology to disarm the unpropertied , dependently working classes and to make them modelling clay in the hands of an economic and political establishment .
The world is approaching the brink of the abyss . Sheer madness gains global ground : Immeasurable wealth and enormous funds are held back and stocked . A senseless financial economy . The rich , beautiful and greedy of a capitalist high society play games of chance in the ballroom of a global Titanic that rushes through a field of crisis bergs . The working crew and the masses of poor third class passengers of the below-deck get more and more worried of the highly dangerous situation . There is still time to stop the lunatic ride if the mechanics and engineers dare to stop the engines , the navigators dare to change course radically and the security personnel on board mustered up all their civil courage to deprive the bridge of its power . And then they will lock the doors of the ballroom and take over the vessel .
Yanis , you see ? This is my vision , not of an “ ideal society ” but of how to manage to preserve the globe from drowning . No Utopia but emergency planning :
� I deprive the plutocratic oligarchic , pseudo democratic stratum of the right to insist on a legal system that enables a destructive , parasitic , finance machinery to embezzle surplus values of the working people .
� I deprive them to be at the levers of power just because they present mutually written out title deed papers which guarantee their
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