[lbo-talk] The French National Front and the future of the eurozone

[Wojtek S]

PS.  However, it still matters if the engineer is a Democrat (or a
social-democrat in Europe) who is slowing the loco down and blows the
whistle to give people a chance to clear the tracks or a Republican who is
moving at full speed and little or no warning.

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Marv quoted: " If the NF gains power, it could spell the end of the
> eurozone."
>
> [WS:] I doubt.  I am becoming more and more swayed by Carrol's dictum that
> conventional politics is irrelevant. Or to be more precise, politics today
> is like a steam locomotive - it can go only where the tracks go and it can
> travel only in one direction - the one it was set by the turntable.  The
> tracks and the turntable are set by the institutional balance of power and
> the locomotive engineers can only vary is the speed and use the whistle.
>  However, it will smash anything that stands in its way.
>
> A change of the ruling party will result mainly in a different use of the
> whistle, and - to a much more limited extent - in varying the speed at
> which the whole thing moves in the pre-set direction.  It will, however,
> overrun any obstacle on its tracks.  It will continue to be so until there
> is a sea change in the institutional balance of power that will build new
> tracks.
>
>
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
>

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."