A different view from Berlin:
The Main Enemy is at Home New german imperialism and the crisis in Euroland
"The foundation of the german influence is an accumulation regime that guarantees a worldwide competitive industrial production via an efficient exploitation of a qualified working class. The development of the unit labor cost is – as the mainstream press is putting it – moderate: The German unification and social cuts (Hartz IV) guarantees, that this goes on. And after such victories on the economic home front german capital is focused on a – peaceful – conquest of foreign markets. There they show, what imperialism is: the highest stage of free competition. Ore to put it into the moralist terminology of the new civil society: the right of the strongest.
So it is time to remember an old slogan: The Main enemy is at home. It is not about fearing for the dissolution of the Euro-Zone because of bad macro economic management. It is about identifying our share in the new german imperialism. Not least the defeats of unions since 1990 made the place in the sun for german business."
Full article: http://planwirtschaft.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/111013_euroimp.pdf
-----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung----- Von: Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> An: marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu <marxism at acidification.economics.utah.edu> Cc: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>; pen-l <pen-l at lists.csuchico.edu> Verschickt: Mi, 12 Okt 2011 2:08 am Betreff: [lbo-talk] The EU After the Euro Crisis
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