EU
ELECTIONS
by system
failure
All
indications point to the fact that the oncoming euro elections will
be marked by a rise of the eurosceptic forces. According to a recent
research, the percentage of the eurosceptics in the new European
parliament could reach 30%. According to Open Europe, these parties
could not build a coherent alliance since they cover a quite broad
ideological spectrum.
There is a
different picture for the traditional parties in power which,
according to the research, will maintain the majority in the euro
parliament, although with less power. These parties are the three
components of the neoliberal doctrine that strikes Europe and
European humanitarian values to serve the big businesses and banks.
The
first component is the conservative Right which has completely
adopted the neoliberal perception. Traditional values of the
conservative-patriotic Right in Europe have been corroded by the
internationalism of neoliberalism. The nationalist - moderate and
less moderate - parties which have taken the responsibility to defend
the nation-state structure, are those that have been escaped from the
ideological corrosion of the Right and naturally belong to
eurosceptics, like for example, the UKIP of Nigel Farage in UK, or,
the "Independent Greeks" of Panos Kammenos in Greece.
The
second component is the Socialist parties which of course have
permanently abandoned their basic Socialist principles and joined the
neoliberal doctrine. In reality, most of the Socialist parties in
Europe, with some exceptions in different times, are choosing the
side of the dominant ideology imposed by the systemic establishment
and they avoid to stand against the economic elites, much more in
periods of big economic crises.
The
latest generation of Socialist parties has been completely corroded
due to their continuous presence in power through frequent exchange
with the Right-wing parties, and this explains, to a great extent,
their total convergence with neoliberalism as the dominant ideology,
mainly during the last three decades.
It
is quite characteristic that, the rhetoric used by the
representatives of Socialists and Right-wing parties in Europe is
nearly identical
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/02/an-example-of-standardized-answers-from.html),
while in many cases, the representatives of the traditional parties
in power are not hiding their parallel courses. Such a characteristic
example is the recent statement from the press representative of the
Socialist party in Greece (PASOK), Odysseas Konstantinopoulos, who
spoke about the sum of the percentage of the Right-wing New Democracy
and PASOK (the parties of the government coalition), against the
possible percentage of SYRIZA (the Left-wing party in Opposition), in
the oncoming euro elections.
The
third component of the neoliberal doctrine is formed by the parties
characterized basically by an apolitical culture. They usually
support the traditional parties in periods where their election
percentages are inadequate to stay in power. The most recent example
of such a type of political formation in Greece, is the "River"
party of the former journalist Stavros Theodorakis, which seems that
it is a creation of the Greek banking-media establishment.
Additionally,
there is another fourth hidden component of the neoliberal doctrine,
which is expressed mainly by the neo-nazi parties. In Greece of
economic crisis, but also in Europe, these parties exploit the
popular anger and self-promoted as an anti-systemic force which is
determined to fight against the establishment. However, it has been
proved historically that they are the "footholds" of the
big capital and the "hidden card" of the system.
The
neo-nazi parties disorientate public opinion by turning the public
against immigrants, targeting them as the exclusive source of the
economic problems and the increase of criminality, while at the same
time, the bankers and the big capital are hiding their enormous
responsibilities through the mainstream media propaganda. It has not
been made clear by the Left that, the economic war is in essence a
class war, not a national-race war, and this is probably its biggest
failure.
The
best proof of the coalition of neo-nazis with the Western economic
elite, are the recent facts in Ukraine and the support of neo-nazi
and nationalist parties by the Western governments.
It
is necessary, more than ever, the parties of eurosceptics from all
the ideological spectrum to build a unified front against the parties
in power which are planning to complete the neoliberal experiment in
Greece in order to expand it across Europe. It's not easy since there
is no ideological convergence, or, similar interests, like in the
case of the European establishment parties, but in case that such a
convergence will not be attempted now, the catastrophic neoliberalism
will sweep all the European people, and Europe will not be able to
return to its real values again, ever.
Comments
Post a Comment