German Anti-Globalization Campaigner: We're Not Paying For Your Crisis!

[FrankRep]

German Anti-Globalization Campaigner: We're Not Paying For Your Crisis!

Spiegel DE
02/26/2009

Anger rises in Germany as the economy falls. Trade unions and globalization-critical protesters are planning demonstrations in Berlin and Frankfurt under the banner: "We're not paying for your crisis." Alexis Passadakis, 31, an activist from the group Attac, tells SPIEGEL what's wrong with the system.
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[A. Havnes]

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Too bad everyone in this country is asleep.

 

[LittleLightShining]

Yeah, but isn't he saying that the richest people in the country should pay for it? Sounds familiar.

Passadakis: We believe that the cost of the economic crisis should be footed by those who profited most from globalization.

SPIEGEL: As a leading exporter, Germany too has profited.

Passadakis: No, the majority of people have not earned much from the boom -- instead they have had to deal with restraint in their wage agreements. The rich, on the other hand, have seen strong increases in their wealth. So it is only fair that they should pay extra duties.

SPIEGEL: You want to fleece the Aldi brothers and the Klatten and Otto families (Germany's richest people) among others?

Passadakis: Yes, they in particular should be ordered to come to the check out. We are calling for the rich to pay out between 5 and 20 percent of their wealth.

 

[ihsv]

Class warfare. Marxist/Leninists at work. Make no mistake about it, this is not good.

 

[Pericles]

We have to remember that is the paradigm in Europe. There will be economic panic and collapse, but the result will not be greater freedom for individuals in an economic sense, and eventually in a political sense as well as the anarchy is brought under control.