[lbo-talk] WSWS on Euro constitution: Vote NO

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> The editorial board of the /World Socialist Web Site/ rejects the
> constitution on the basis of fundamental, rather than merely tactical,
> considerations. Whoever votes "yes" is not voting "for Europe," as the
> proponents of the constitution state. Such a vote legitimises the
> bourgeois state, capitalist private property, militarism and imperialist
> foreign policy. It legitimises a Europe in which the elementary
> interests of the population are subordinated to the profit interests of
> the major corporations and banks.
> 
> Among the basic principles laid down in the constitution are "an
> internal market where competition is free and undistorted" and "a highly
> competitive social market economy." This makes the domination of the
> interests of big business over all aspects of social life a
> constitutional principle.
> 
> Such a stipulation is historically unprecedented. The great bourgeois
> constitutions in modern history-the American Constitution of 1787 and
> the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789-do
> not defend capitalist market relations, but rather "the natural,
> unalienable and sacred rights of man." They defend the social and
> democratic rights of the individual citizen, not the power or free
> movement of capital.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Full text: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/euro-m25.shtml
> 

What a tripe. Either the CIA is running getting to undermine the EU unity,
or otherwise it is the natural clueless ness of the fringe left.

I think the constitution is good because it furthers EU unity and this
another nail to the coffin of the Evil Empire.  

Wojtek