> In the Right Wing Consensus, the State is granted a
> fundamentally authoritarian role. It is incumbent
> upon the state to solve all societal conflicts under
> its own aegis. Opposition to state organs only
> legitimizes itself through the alleged decline of the
> state, which must be freed from a presumably
> corrupt political class. At no time does this
> connote an actual substantive critique of the State
> form. The National Socialist model of the "Fuehrer"
> is already immanent in this conception.
Oh please. The argument here is that unless you take the ultraleft's position that the state ought to be abolished -- rather than, say, struggling to make the government more responsive to people's needs -- then Nazism is "immanent" in your thinking. This is nonsense and differs little from Third Period denunciations of "social fascists."
> participation in the parliamentary system of the
> Federal Republic of Germany already implies an
> affirmative approach to the State, which accepts
> the State as the representative of one's own interests
Ultraleftist, abstentionist babble.
> Under the slogan "Investment, not Speculation!"
> said politicians blockaded the entrance to the stock
> exchange in Frankurt am Main and declared in a
> paper that stock exchanges "are the point of origin
> and symbol for large-scale social destruction and
> economic menace" whose root cause is easily
> recognized: the lust for profit on the part of "those,
> who don't even know what to do with their wealth
> anymore, other than to hit the exchange" and the
> obligatory greed of the largest banks.
>
> The argumentation of the PDS reproduces central
> elements of anti-semitic ideology.
So anyone who attacks finance capital is really just attacking the Jews? Please.
All that this proves is that demented sectarians in Germany lend a certain Teutonic philosophical ponderousness to their ridiculous polemics that, say, the rantings of the Spartacist League in the US cannot match.
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