[lbo-talk] A German Europe

[Carrol Cox]

It's been a year or more I believe since I insisted that current political
thought has to begin by insisting on the contingent importance of the
tautology Capitalism is capitalism. Some people (e.g. Wojtek) just won't
admit that.

Carrol

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Wojtek wrote:


> but at least German working class gets some crumbs and
even a few morsels.

Only the labor aristocracy in the export-oriented machine industry sector,
not the supermarket cashiers at Lidl and Aldi, or the Hartz IV recipients
being forced to pick up litter for 1 euro an hour.

Besides, you and Joel are acting like this is a choice between two social
models.

I mean, you get that Cameron vs. Merkel isn't about choosing between two
welfare systems, right?  It's about Berlin's sado-monetarist imposition of
austerity on the rest of the continent.

As for cartels vs. financial markets, I frankly don't give a shit whether
the major shareholders are organized through banks rather than through
financial markets.

I mean, this is absurd that I even have to say this, but it should be a
basic banality right now for anybody who reads a newspaper: in the Eurozone
crisis, Germany is the bad guy.  Period.
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