Brexit or not; Corbyn between plague and cholera

“The fat years are over,” announced Olaf Scholz and wanted to say that the little man now has to face restrictions without affecting the wealth that has accumulated in the top ten thousand. Perhaps the social assistance recipients will now receive a somewhat larger handout from the Constitutional Court, but nothing should fundamentally change in the distribution. Some always have to vegetate at and below the subsistence level, as a warning and as a threat to all who struggle in badly paid jobs, although they know that they will hardly be able to live from the pension they have earned.

For capital owners, the exploitation of labor has reached its limits: an extension of working time can not be enforced at present and the intensity of the work can be increased only laboriously. And Eastern Europe is increasingly drying up as a reservoir of labor for Western Europeans, while training and education of the workforce are becoming more and more expensive.

The industrial corporations and the monopolies have accumulated huge amounts of capital which are to be utilized at a high rate of profit. However, automated driving and replacement of the internal combustion engine counteract this and would necessitate a centralization of capital, and industrial and bank capital are still reluctant. A misuse of capital becomes visible. The economists speak of the companies as net savers.

In the competition of the capital groups, the German political class was the most useful: it managed to integrate Eastern Europe's workforce in Germany and set up the largest low-wage sector in Europe while largely avoiding labor disputes. In asserting the austerity requirements, Germany gained the leadership and was even able to impose its hegemony on Greece and Italy.

The British island, however, remained in this struggle for supremacy. The London financial center itself generated little added value, but revealed the huge gap to the working population moaning under the German-dominated, neo-liberal Brussels straitjacket. And the British political class is rearing and mourning the imperial greatness. She does a drama (theater utensils are abundant in use) as if she were rebeling for the people, as if she were not letting low-wage workers out of the country, as if she were providing health care with more financial resources than she would have with separate people Restrict the unregulated capital movements of monopolies in favor of small traders in order to finally accept the austerity regime represented by Brussels, including German hegemony.

So it is much more convincing to the audience to agree that it must expect further restrictions, as with the clumsy wording that the fat years are over.