The European Parliament elections brought the light into the EU political crisis. It is therefore worth to undermine the rise of Eurosceptic parties and political movements right after the elections. The far-left and far-right wings which are the two challenging poles, signals of changing everything, appear to meet actually in one common point: ultra-nationalism.
The current atmosphere reminds me of Europe of 1912. The European social-democratic parties have become a part of the ongoing wars and adopted a nation-state phenomenon under the name of "homeland defense" since they broke the resolution about opposing imperialist wars specified at the Manifesto of the International Socialist Congress at Basel in 1912. With reference to the Victor Hugo's vision, the peaceful "United States of Europe" is still seeking itself. On December 2 1914, during the First World War, the only deputy to challenge the war defenses at the German assembly was Karl Liebknecht, one of the co-founders of the revolutionist Spartacusbund (Spartacus League). He and Rosa Luxemburg, another passionate activist of that movement, had resisted the attacks of German militarism only until 1919.
In Europe, the Spartacusbund was the most organized and consistent anti-war movement of the First World War era. Having challenged severely chauvinism and imperialist wars, Luxemburg and Liebknecht were brutally killed on January 15, 1919. Now let's think about the present situation of Europe, I have to admit that Europe is even behind the point where Luxemburg left us. At least, there was such a political resistance against the narrow-minded nationalism of Europe in the 20th century. Today there is not even a single protest movement.
There is a "so-called" left in Europe today, rejecting the international heritage, re-embracing a nation-state phenomenon, rejecting the EU and even rejecting the Euro-zone. Getting into the bottom of the left-wing politics, it seems to me that they did not understand the new globalization cycle based on information society. They also failed to project that the developing countries would rise after the 2008 meltdown, erasing the traditional hierarchy of nation-states of the 20th century. Let's take a closer look at the developments that the European left-wing could not see.
In 2009, China surpassed Germany with a total export of 1 trillion 200 billion dollars. Now, China does not only export product, but also capital. Reaching energy resources and exporting capital mostly to Africa and all around the world, China's new expansion and capital accumulation paradigm totally differs from that of the Western predatory exploitation emerged in the 16th century. Such paradigm reveals the main motto of the information society economy: you will win if you produce and share. However, the capital accumulation of the industrial society was based on declaring the resources as insufficient, keeping technology to yourself until it becomes obsolete, creating technological profit, and exploiting the labor force without mercy. The British capital accumulation was first established on this formula. However, the other Western countries and notably Germany failed to adopt such practices and used aggressive militarism as leverage, which has always come into existence through nationalism and fascism at recession times.
The German industry takes its origin from traditional machine and chemist industry, based on nation-state militarism and statist war economy. The leading automotive companies such as Mercedes and BMW, electronic and domestic appliance monopolies as Siemens, AEG and Bosch and pharmaceutical and chemistry trusts as Bayer are the followers of this economy. To exceed their borders, the pre-condition was to be based on a powerful and race-basis nation-state model which would offer a permanent profit. Germany has become the most important model of statist industry capitalism up until now. The iron-steel and chemistry industries along with their sub-fields empowered Germany. The emergence of such industrial fields should be seen as a development model unique to the continental Europe. This is why German -and the continental European- politicians have always promised to their citizens throughout the history: "Believe in militarism and the system based on the industries producing it. Feel free to pay your taxes regularly and you will get more than what you give."
This system transformed the iron-steel and chemistry industries into arms industry and forced the European countries to follow Germany. While the system became depended on military expenses (military Keynesianism), the army's technological developments and competition created innovation and expansionist industry giants. To summarize, the whole system from automotive to electronics was based on militarist and imperialist state phenomenon. The military industry acted like an icebreaker ship. This is why Germany and Turkey have shared a common fate in many times since the beginning of the 20th century.
Turkey adopted many practices of the German nation-state model until it became a part of the U.S new-imperialist hegemony. This model of one-race which promoted war against other nation-states, introduced the system of a "one party leader" and "one party state". As you may know, this party was the Republican People's Party (CHP). This party's "one-man" doctrine has been recognized as an indispensable and fixed principle since then. Although the left-wing and social-democratic parties of Germany and Turkey seem different, in fact, they bear the same historical defect based on the nation-state phenomenon and one-race. This defect was supported either as "patriotism" or "anti-imperialism" at political platforms. Today, the discourse creator ideologues among Turkey's left-wing prevent once again the combination of two important dynamics of the left-wing. These dynamics are new democratic Kurdish and Islamic movements, which are not only national, but also regional and global dynamics.
However, Turkey is drawing a new path, leaving Europe with its militarist nation-state phenomenon. The new path includes Islam, which is a religion offering ultimate justice for all the people. The more Turkey moves away from Kemalism, another version of Nazism, the more Turkey becomes a target of Germany and of Turkey's pro-coup fascist ideology. The above-mentioned socio-economic facts lie at the root of the hate crimes against Turkish people and of the issue of Islamophobia getting much more stronger in Europe.
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