Whitey on the Moon
German Elections, Greek Tragedies and Democracy
Morning Comrades.
Obviously a lot of what is going to follow is in reference to the German federal election result that took place yesterday, and equally, all of which that is going to follow is in reference to our collective lives here in the West. Again, the absolute majority of the people that read this reside in what we call “the west” - with notable exceptions of course and I am happy to reach that far.
We all grew up with one unshakeable foundation to our identity, no matter the country, and that is that we live in a free and democratic society, with equal rights for all, freedom of speech and generally a society that “cares”. This, obviously stems from the European wars in the 20th Century, especially, WW2 that shattered so many of those carefully constructed identities when Germany applied the pan-European White Supremacist ideology that forms one of the foundational pillars to Capitalism on, well, the rest of Europe. This fact alone crushed so much of the careful constructed liberal democratic opinion and identity that was manufactured after the French Revolution that unfathomable resources were used to, post-WW2, utterly solidify the idea that West is Best. Anyone that challenged this enforced identity was a threat and treated as such. We know this.
Even in the most capitalist hellhole, the US, this cultural hegemony was, albeit briefly, maintained by a sort state organised social democratic system that provided assistance to the very foundations of any society, shelter, care and food. As we all know the US and the UK abandoned that lie, materially, by 1980, the rest of Continental Europe still clings to it, as an ideological tool to garner votes at best, for the fear of possibly returning to a Weimar Republicesque material reality.
And logically, here we are.
It is shamefully easy to prove how none of the principles enshrined in the foundations of the democratic liberal order established during the French Revolution exist, have existed and if they have, simply asking for what class shatters that illusion for anyone with an operational braincell.
Briefly, the reason to beat on about the French Revolution is that established a manufactured morality of the Bourgeoisie that legitimised Capitalism and all it entails. Simply said, it made the order of society as it is today the morally correct way to do everything. It is such a wide sweeping construct that this foundation is at the core of every single thought, action and reality we all share.
Yet, it’s a lie. Always has been and always will.
What feels like an earth-shattering change is one simple fact, entirely inherent in Capitalism and that is, that the contradictions of this economic system produce and rely on extreme violence to work. Up until the 1940s, this took place everywhere except here and since the 1980s it’s been coming home, to our doorstep and again, for anyone with half a functioning braincell, that wolf at our door is yelling. Yelling loudly.
Thus we get to the German Federal Election. Which, to be utterly clear, is just another election in a long line of Western elections that solidified and legitimised the very nature of Capitalism as the status quo, the raison d'être to justify a class based system of violence and zero representation.
And let’s make one point extremely clear. Democracy, as a tool to organise any society is probably one the best ways to run any organisation that we can think of, myself included. I would love to live a democracy. We just don’t and the question really is then:
How much longer can afford to pretend that we do, before we step up and actually create one?
Again, the premise and promise of western liberal democracy is representation that can and will allocate the collective resources appropriately to ensure shelter, food and care for everyone, at the very fucking least. That’s the jump-off point that sold us the idea that we give up power and agency and give it to someone to ensure this. It never fucking happened. I am not even willing to apologise for the profanity but this simple understanding of our reality enrages me beyond words.
Since Reagan and Thatcher brought capitalism in its full shape and form home the short-lived era of organised communal support and re-distribution of collective resources ( which is the entire point for a democratic state btw for the juvenile anti-statists out there ) has stopped and whatever collective safety nets existed have all been perverted to a disgusting bootlicking version of individualism which, as we all know and feel, is unsustainable in every sense of the word.
I’ve been working full time, mostly almost double that for almost 30 years and in those 30 years I have experienced nothing but a a steady disastrous decline in wages, healthcare, living conditions, often existing in precarity that belies the foundational reason of existence of capitalism. Material realities shape your identity and existence if you ever needed an understanding about the political path I’ve been on since then. Falling for the idiocy of racism, nationalism, culture wars and what not to divert my stress away from those that caused it never logically made sense when the kings and queens of the western democratic world shove their reality in your face on the daily. This is a story that is wholly typical and I’d imagine most of you can relate to it.
And yet, our democracies demand that I step up every for four/five years or to vote and desperately save democracy. From whom? Me? You?
I can’t take this bullshit anymore. What fucking democracy? The logical conclusion of the Western world has always been a minority dictatorship to extract wealth by all means necessary. There is no democracy, we have no say in who runs our society, we can’t even make collective decisions at work for god’s sake, a place where most of us spent 80% of our time. Again, I’d love a democracy but I certainly don’t want this bullshit.
Before I continue ranting about the fallacy of this Greek Tragedy we are all in cosplaying in, about the German election, representative for the West:
This German federal election in a nutshell.
All parties voted in parliament are capitalist, officially zionist and nothing will fundamentally change. Even if it may sound like a paradox but is irrelevant - in the sense that it will result into another variant of the same, quasi permanent, coalition of Christian & Social Democrats, perhaps with a splattering of the pseudo-Greens, the same coalition that put Germany on the road to it has been on, will continue to rule.
Yet, equally it is a transformational election - in the sense that it marks the tremendous rise of the ultra-rightist AfD which has already brought in the normalisation of its toxic xenophobia that the victors, the CDU/CSU, as well as large parts of the Green party, have fully adopted. This racist fascist bootlicking is inherent in German society, it is an ideological rather than material foundation to this country.
In the medium run, nothing will change in a Germany that cannot afford to stay the same. The new Merz government, out of fear that the AfD will be nibbling at his conservative electoral base from the right, will do none of the three things that are desperately needed:
1. Massive investment to overcome the ill effects of 17 years of zero net investment caused by the inane combination of austerity for the many and massive money printing for the few.
2. A European fiscal union without which the EU, and thus, Germany will continue to slide into irrelevance.
3. The reversal of Germany’s return into xenophobia and authoritarianism.
By not doing any of this – by continuing business as usual when business cannot go on as usual - Mr Merz will end up a tragic figure, unwittingly boosting the ultra right, just like Macron, the great big liberal hope, ended up reinforcing Le Pen in France.
Again, the majority parties that won this election with a majority are deeply racist, overtly so, deeply neoliberal capitalists. Sure, I am relived that the Left Party made it into the parliament with 8% of the national vote, but again, as a party, they are capitalistic reformers and zionists. None of which I am even remotely ok with.
So what’s it going to take? The play is up, the curtains have fallen.
We have the solutions to all this.
Yours, V.