euro and kautskyism

Hinrich Kuhls kls at mail.online-club.de
Fri Jan 8 14:26:41 PST 1999


As always Louis Proyect is trendy:


>I have no idea where Chris gets the chutzpah to claim that the Euro is a
>victory for working-people anywhere when so many leftists have taken just
>the opposite position. The Euro was not a conquest of the working-class
>movement. It was part of moves by the European Union (EU) to consolidate
>their economic power against US and Japanese imperialism under the auspices
>of the Treaty of Maastricht. Nothing could be clearer. Why he would want to
>identify with the bankers and politicians is anybody's guess. I suppose it
>is the sign of the utter degeneration of Stalinism that such a thing can
>take place. He belongs to one of the outgrowths of the once militant
>British Communist Party, which evolved into right-wing Eurocommunism. His
>sect emerges out of the right wing of the Eurocommunist CP. If I had a
>choice, I'd prefer to have portraits of Joseph Stalin on the wall than the
>Tony Blair portraits these birds presumably have hung up.

Today's trend is combining provocative therapy with laughter therapy, or as Charly Chaplin put it in one of his best serious aphorism: "A day without a loud lough is a lost day".

H. Kuhlo

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