RUTHLESS
CRITICISM
“If we have no
business with the construction of the future or with organizing it for
all time, there can still be no doubt about the task confronting us at
present: the ruthless criticism of the existing order, ruthless in that
it will shrink neither from its own discoveries, nor from conflict with
the powers that be.” — Karl Marx
The monopoly on violence
The state: Your friend?The political power over capitalist society
What is the state and how does it organize the capitalist economy?Rule based on the will of the ruled
Violence, force and power The state wants to be the “supreme power” without any competition
The bourgeois state The founder, protector and organizer of private property as a system
Freedom and equality
What is freedom?
Loved by all, celebrated by many, criticized by no one
Freedom and equalityAs good as their reputation?
[Video] The Snowden affair: Freedom vs security – A false alternative! Why freedom needs government control and lots of it
Rule of law
Theses on the constitutional stateWho rules when the law rules?
Equality before the law
Some tacky questions about a supreme good
The business about human rightsThe political power grants the generous permission to be a person – and showers itself with praise for this deed
Labor law
Organizing the conflict between employers and employees
Off with their heads – No or sometimes yes?The good citizen’s favorite puzzle
Rights and the classesA reason to be grateful?
Taxes
The taxpayerPowerless, discontent, appreciated
Financial & monetary policy
The national budget: On the economy of political domination
A budget unlike any other
Interest rate cuts in AmericaThe Fed speculates on the speculators and the speculators speculate on the Fed
The “war budget”Business and violence simply fit indissolubly well together in the market economy
The social state & austerity
The welfare state: Nothing but the management of capitalistic povertyIts existence shows the inability of wages to support a working class
“The state saves!”The people are too expensive
Justice is another word for impoverishmentA suitable value for an austerity program
Privatization – Why not?The real criteria for the “public sector”
Dismantling the welfare state: A totally imperialistic programThe citizens get to experience what it costs them to be economic resources of a rich and powerful nation with world power
Environment & health
The political uses of environmental degradation and protection
Destruction of nature – only in correct amounts
[Audio] US health care reform:
Another historic moment in the administration of the nation’s poverty Why the hopes were misplaced
Climate change: Product of globalized capitalism and subject of debate between the states that organize itSuperstorms, droughts, floods, refugees ...