MANOLO MONEREO, SPANISH POLITICIAN
NATO is the one which units the agenda, defines the occasions, defines commerce insurance policies, sanctions and people which were sanctioned, the disengagement of China, the place on Israel , on Iran…
I first learn the phrase “zombie concepts” in a e book by Ulrich Beck titled “Freedom or Capitalism”. Since then I’ve come throughout it many occasions right here and there, having used it every so often.
Zombie concepts are ideas with out content material, phrases that made sense at a sure time however cross away with time and, above all, the change of historic circumstances, make ineffective, pointless. However, right here the specificity seems, they’re nonetheless used onerous, they’re repeated repeatedly and when the election campaigns arrive, they declare that they are going to get again a part of their former persuasive drive.
The European elections are essentially the most amenable to those anachronistic experiments. “Extra Europe” is mixed with “everybody in opposition to the far proper” by alarming requires a “Europe of rights”, “feminist” and “social”. The extra progressive ones even speak about conflict, rearmament and weapons; Gaza reveals and each day killing of Palestinians (youngsters, younger folks, ladies, aged folks).
The intense proper desires to be heard and threatens bodily drive. European elections are perfect for searching for picture, limiting locations and sources of occasion or private funding. Those that know are anxious that the “nationwide” overlaps or eliminates the “European.” These elections, they insist, are essential, certain; There was a time when there was discuss of “regional elections” or nearly. Communicate up so you do not keep silent.
You need to perceive it. The issue is that there’s little curiosity in these elections; not as a result of the folks think about that what is set there, on the high, on the high, is unimportant; Then again, it’s so vital, so sure, that the vote, your vote, doesn’t outline something.
The fundamental choices have already been made, the fundamental insurance policies are being applied and their funding is already underway. The vote doesn’t show something; nothing Going to conflict, defeating Russia or stopping Putin from profitable, will mark our subsequent and sure future. Struggle, escalation and basic battle, nuclear or not, the large query is, will the end line be decided in these elections? It would not appear to be it.
NATO is the one which units the agenda, defines the occasions, defines commerce insurance policies, sanctions and people which were sanctioned, the disengagement from China, the place on Israel , on Iran. The kind of financial insurance policies and the position of the army, industrial and scientific middle; its hyperlinks to Synthetic Intelligence.
The good consensus concerning immigration tells us, along with rhetoric, that we face a safety and political-military downside concerning the management and use of populations for the political class.
The “nice geopolitical transition” we’re experiencing highlights the fixed presence of “concepts” that shortly develop into zombies, whose fixed repetition fills the headlines and that say much less and fewer. We have now been speaking for years about sanitary cordons in opposition to the intense proper, making solemn statements, promising that we are going to not govern with the Meloni brothers or Abascal hardliners.
The intense proper and the intense proper are starting to be practical to the “new” European Union that’s rising in and with the conflict. A extra North American EU, a robust defender of an endangered west, frightened by barbarian invasions. Liberals of all events do not get it. Sánchez would not scare anybody; your man The issue is that he lives (as they see it) a spot of energy that needs to be in different fingers; now greater than ever. Not due to what it does, however due to what it prevents from being executed.
The EU at a time of conflict desires to consolidate itself within the outdated nation-state approach by defining enemies and reinforcing its inside cohesion. “Europe, energy and energy” can’t be constructed with out States, with out nations, with out the dedication of the folks.
The pendulum is now swinging from insurance policies of integration to insurance policies of state consolidation, particularly if societies need to be armed, return to obligatory army service and provides giant assets to the conflict and enterprise middle. The (actual) nationalist proper is an ideal place for the long run world.
They should be sure that the suitable adjustments and that the democratic socialist left leaves the scene. Systemic anticommunism as a technique and gear to destroy the welfare State, privatize public companies and, above all, dissolve union and labor rights. They’re sovereigns with out standard sovereignty, strategic allies of the US, staunch supporters of “liberalism of worry” and staunch defenders of conventional values.
Neoliberalism is greater than idea, political apply and strategic interpretation, it’s a matrix of energy, construction and group of a political bloc on the service of the nice monetary and industrial monopolies.
The “there is no such thing as a different” has develop into widespread sense for the plenty, a regular approach of doing politics. It has typically been repeated that it’s simpler to think about the tip of humanity than the tip of capitalism. What does this imply?
That we’re pressured to dwell with barbarism that has no different historic perspective; that the necessity and risk of a mode of manufacturing, consumption and livelihood completely different from dominant capitalism has disappeared from the creativeness of the subaltern courses; that disaster accelerates processes of decline and that social and cultural inclusion has made nice progress.
The tip of globalization, the tip of North American hegemony and the tip of neoliberalism, seemingly single points, more and more are inclined to merge in area and time.
Up to now we got here to the conclusion that neoliberalism can be defeated by a coalition of standard and democratic forces that may open, as in Latin America, the way in which to a brand new society and methods new to politics. It will not be like that. What’s coming is the overcoming of neoliberalism, so to talk, on the suitable.
The “nice hegemonic transition”, the decline of the overall West and the rise of the worldwide South are incompatible with globalization and require the assets and assets of nation states.
It’s no coincidence that Israel is on the middle of the controversy. Slogans for the US and Israel had been chanted on the European Vox days. I repeat, it isn’t a coincidence. The portrait of Abascal by Netanyahu just isn’t the previous, it’s the more and more doable, extra politically viable future.
The pinnacle of the Likud represents that mixture – distinctive and full – between custom and capitalist modernity; a conceptual universe that connects the studying of the Bible with historical past with the notes of chosen folks and the brand new applied sciences for the examine and management of numbers. Israel is the entrance line within the conflict between civilizations; he stated higher, between Judeo-Christian civilization and Islamist barbarism; forward of the threatened West. Armed peace and everlasting motion in opposition to an enemy all the time lurking and able to assault and conquer.
We’re within the final a part of an election marketing campaign that’s characterised by insults and disqualifications, with out a actual dialogue in regards to the issues and challenges of the European Union within the strategy of political and institutional change and, above all, by systematically hiding the system. adversarial impact on the escalation of NATO’s proxy conflict in opposition to Russia. We’re transferring from “restricted conflict” to “basic conflict.” To assume that Russia wouldn’t use its nuclear weapons is to play on a knife’s edge. After the elections now we have to speak rather a lot about politics.
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