Hans-Jürgen Kryamanski: Who will own the EU – the Superrich or the People of Europe?
Auszug:
"By focusing on the superrich, the question of ‘who will own the EU?’ must be addressed on various levels. First of all, it is a matter of assessing the extent of wealth concentration in Europe. Secondly there are the theoretical problems of class analysis. Is a new ruling class based on these accumulation processes evolving in Europe? Thirdly we have to ask whether we are entering a new epoch or societal formation based on a quite unique mix of novel accumulation processes. Our focus centres on the second level: ‚who does what (to whom)?’. We hold that postulating a European ‘ruling class’ is premature. We will try to describe the actors and profiteers of capitalism-based high-tech-refeudalisation of Europe in terms of a complex network of cooperating and competing elites. And we will use a new term to describe their networks: ‘monetary power complex’."
Über den Autor:
Hans-Jürgen Krysmanski ist emeritierter Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Münster. Publikationen u.a.: Soziologie des Konflikts 1971, Gesellschaftsstruktur der Bundesrepublik 1982, Soziologie und Frieden 1993, Popular Science. Medien, Wissenschaft und Macht in der Postmoderne 2001, Hirten&Wölfe. Wie Geld- und Machteliten sich die Welt aneignen 2004. Autor etlicher TV-Reportagen (Spiegel-TV, NDR), einst u.a. Mitglied des Präsidiums des 'World Peace Council', jetzt u.a. Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats von Attac
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