The bribery scandal in the EU, whose investigations are still ongoing, appears to
be a litmus test of the entire European construction. ---- A construction born ona misunderstanding and developed through fairly predictable paths, but which,transformed into ideology and, often, into theology, has had advantage overreality. ---- The basic idea of building a European union is that fascism andNazism were the result of nationalism and that, therefore, the Second World Warbroke out because of these chauvinistic behaviours. In reality, fascism andNazism were not exactly nationalist but imperialist (they wrote it in largeletters and recited it aloud. Nothing mysterious, therefore) and theirimperialism was born in contrast to those already existing (British andAmerican). However, what they all really had in common was visceralanti-communism. Strangely, but not so much, in the construction of Europeanidentity the class aspect of fascism has disappeared and, under other and morecomplex guises, a liberalism that is not only dead and buried, but a contributingcause of the rise of fascisms.An EU built on the ordoliberal ideology cannot necessarily transform itself intoa socialist congregation and, conversely, risks ending up under the indifferenttractor of the right, which also understands capitalism and the deprivation ofsocial rights.Therefore, if the EU was born and prospered not as a socialist political union,it does not even foresee large extensions of democratic participation. In thissense, "European" law and the "European constitution" itself (which does notexist in this form) are indicative, which have competition and price stability astheir main objectives (in clear contradiction, among other things, with Article 1of our anti-fascist Constitution).This subtraction of democracy, although the EU itself, in its sprawling branches,issues rules at every turn on privacy, transparency and so on and so forth,becomes a prairie for ultra-capitalist lobbies. But not only. Since the economydoes not go around without politics and both cannot be together withoutgeopolitics, the scandal of the bribes from Qatar opens up an interestingperspective. Meanwhile the EU itself, lying on US directives, is castratingitself with regard to the war between Russia and Ukraine (a war in which Europe,even if it is not united, would have had an extraordinary opportunity to becomethe protagonist of a peace action) and raises its voice against IRAN (somethingcertainly justified by the current situation in that country but which appearsridiculous and clearly instrumental if done together with the US Empire, whichcan boast very few merits in the defense of civil rights) carries oncollaborations with countries in comparison with which the regime of theAyatollahs looks like Sweden in the 1970s. Qatar, Saudi Arabia (ignoring Morocco,whose situation is different but for which it is necessary not to speak of Sarhawi).This permeability to lobbyist actions, in this case illegal, in other casesperfectly regular, shouldn't scandalize too much, but should instead make usreflect on the situation of democracy and not only in Europe. A democracy fromwhich participation is expelled, badly replaced by increasingly absurd andcumbersome bureaucratic procedures. Absurd and cumbersome because they are madewithout and outside of politics.But well within the concrete interests of the ruling classes (and what is this ifnot politics?) and those, albeit well paid, of a political class reduced to therole of wealthy pariah who can do nothing against gigantic powers.The cube delegation of the EU is turning into a boomerang for the very concept ofdemocracy and in moments of systemic crisis like this it can happen that, in theend, even that little participation is itself seen as the origin of systemic ills.A film already seen. In black and white.Andrea Belluccihttp://www.ucadi.org/2023/01/02/bruxelles-ladrona/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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