We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Against Germany's One-Party System

Click here to access article by Oskar Lafontaine from MR Zine

The author reports on another political stage play that, this time, is being performed in Germany. I think it illustrates the high degree of integration of Germany into the Anglo-American Empire. 
The Americanization of German politics has undoubtedly led to the fact that today, in Germany, too, we have a one-party system with four wings....
Having failed by using a formal one party state under the Nazis, the German One Percent has learned how to create the illusion of democracy using American methods.