[Individual-members-EL] EL

[Dr. Peter Troxler]

On 7-feb-2008, at 21:50, sigfrido ramirez wrote:
> the decision to be organised in national chapters is already taken.  
> Steven has already requested the same on behalf of the other  
> individual members. We are thinking about doing the same in Brussels

oh no, please ... to be quite frank and open -- and supporting Mike  
Nagler

let them Italians have their own national socialist observer status  
if they want it as such.  no national group should, in my opinion,  
try to do become a "national observer" unless they are really  
representing some sort of national socialist grouping because there  
is no other suitable socialist party to do that job.

but that's not what I am looking for as an individual member.

I am looking for and requesting a representation of the (pan)  
European (thus supra-national) group of individual members of the EL.  
that's something NO national socialist party can do.

the personal reason is that being born in Switzerland, having lived  
in Scotland and living  now in the Netherlands I could not feel  
attached  to any of the above "nations" nor to any other else; I live  
and feel as a European  (even if Switzerland is not formally a member  
of the EU).

the political reason, more importantly, is that the ever more buoying  
pan-european, globalized, pan-galactic neo-post-capitalism, our  
biggest enemy, does NOT AT ALL care about national boundaries, and we  
socialists are systemically bound to fail if we try to fight post- 
capitalism on a national level.  social policy is to be made on EU  
level, influenced by supra-nationally acting post-capitalist  
lobbying  (and not by elected representatives).

national socialist parties fight to keep their national employment  
(e.g. in the NL the fight against the closure of Unilever).  this is  
a good thing to do -- on national level, and they do get my fullest  
support.

but on the European / EU level this becomes just completely  
irrelevant.  EU standars for working conditions across the zone of  
free movement of labour is more important.  even more important is to  
address the issue of the deflection of (skilled) (blue collar) labour  
from new / accessing countries to the "old" EU nations which akins to  
some kind of tripple post-capitalist slavery -- (1) the individual  
who becomes the slave of capitalists in the established nations; (2)  
whole societies (of the new countries) get stripped of their work- 
force to the monetary benefit of the established EU states while at  
the same time (3) post-capitalist "entrepreneurs" take over the new  
states' economies only to sell their less mobile resources to  
globalized corporations

very few of the national socialist parties are likely to address  
these supra-national issues; thus the EL urgently *needs* the  
community of non-nationalist individual members AT THE VERY LEAST as  
observers, but in actual fact as one of the driving forces behind the  
very idea of EL.

frankly, I don't see that "national" groups of individual members  
should even try to get member status, and it should be denied to the  
Sinistra Europa if they claim it to be national (I don't know their  
actual position; and if they'd agree to the above positions I would  
have little hesitation to make them the seed of an individual  
members' representation).

organisation, i.e.how to reach members -- not how to represent them  
-- is a completely different issue and would for practical reasons  
probably best be handled nationally or regionally




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