Reuters/Panayiotis Tzamaros rtve.es
Only a politically united core Europe offers any hope of reversing the process – already far advanced – of transforming a citizens' democracy built on the idea of the social state into a sham democracy governed by market principles.[...]For the first time in the history of capitalism a crisis triggered by the most advanced sector, the banks, could only be resolved by governments getting their citizens, in their capacity as taxpayers, to stump up for the losses incurred. At this point a barrier between systemic processes and real-life processes was broken down. The citizens are rightly outraged.The widespread feeling of injustice derives from the fact that faceless market processes have assumed a directly political dimension in the popular perception. This feeling is combined with a sense of rage, suppressed or otherwise, at one's own impotence. To counteract this we need a new politics of self-empowerment.[...]
The people of Europe must learn that they can only preserve their welfare-state model of society and the diversity of their nation-state cultures by joining forces and working together. They must pool their resources – if they want to exert any kind of influence on the international political agenda and the solution of global problems. To abandon European unification now would be to quit the world stage for good.
The Guardian, 09.08.2012
Einspruch gegen die Fassadendemokratie
Original publication in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 03.08.2012
Einspruch gegen die Fassadendemokratie
Original publication in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 03.08.2012
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