The legitimacy of power of the elites of Western democracy

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As Charles Champetier argued in an article in Elements (Le Peuple contre la nouvelle classe Issue 85 pp 5-10), no one is listening to the palaver of what Lasch called the New Class any more. After all, the modern democratic liberal system has fostered a generation of brain-addled consumers and this generation is as unable to understand the arguments for democracy and human rights as it is unable to understand any other argument. The New Class can no longer persuade because its subjects are too mentally feeble to be intellectually persuaded. They hold the right opinions just so long as those opinions are associated with bread and circuses but no longer.

Does not rest on conviction, it rests on the appearance of power and security. Who will run to liberalism's aid, when the house is burning? The quarrel between imperialists of Europe and European phone number list internationalists, plays at a high level and does not involve the people at all, who have as a body no say in the running of European affairs. The creation of a European super- state, however it is undertaken will ensure and is intended to ensure the abolition of all vestiges of authentic democracy. It is richly ironical that the peoples most aware of this are those who live in the "eye of the storm", the Russians and to a lesser extent Americans.


An alliance of Russian and American populists with the old capitalist/communist confrontation forgotten and buried, could lay the ground stone for a new world order based not on lucre but on nature. We develop power in response to danger, by reacting to it. We need what Carl Schmitt called the Ernstfall, the moment when our lives are out at risk for the whole, as a means to unite us with the whole, to overcome our inborn isolation. To establish an alternative power-base, therefore, solidarity is needed and solidarity emerges in the recognition of an Ernstfall.