JP Morgan to the Eurozone periphery: your constitutions are too anti-fascist

[Antonio the Sixth]

Neoliberals hate democracy. It should be pretty clear by now.

[Antonio the Sixth]

"Stable governance and respect for property rights" are perfectly compatible with dictatorship. In fact, probably more so than with democracy.

[Antonio the Sixth]

It's pretty obvious if you read the bolded statement that this line

put in place in the aftermath of the fall of fascism

is calling the constitutions outdated, as opposed to insufficiently fascistic.

Indeed, Vosem, democracy is so outdated...

[Antonio the Sixth]

strengthening the national (elected) executive at the expense of regions

What a progress, undoing these paltry 30 years of decentralization. Also, go tell to Germany that their Länder have too much power.

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rofl

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I fail to see what's wrong with such a provision. Syndicalism and strike are basic worker's rights.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Centralization is not undemocratic, it just makes absolutely sense since most European countries (contrary to the US) don't have excessively powerful local entities, but often quite the opposite.

I don't really care about interpreting what JP Morgan's "advice" to European democracies, but the idea that under PR all elected parliamentarians are party hacks while under FPP they are elected on their own merits is definitely worth laughing at.

And yeah, like it or not, even public employees have a right to strike and unionize. Sure, it's annoying to have a few trains delayed/canceled from time to time, but I don't think this trumps basic principles of workplace democracy. Of course there are necessary exceptions for cops, servicemen etc, as the article you cited mentions. Why do you care so much about public employees anyway? Don't you guys want to privatize everything?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Supporting centralization and FPP is not the worst part of that set of "recommendations", though it is still pretty disgusting.

It's really hilarious to hear you lecturing me about the notion of public service now. Anyhow, obviously you can't always strike in a public utility like you do on a private business. The right to strike, as every other right, is not absolute, as I'm pretty sure that for example, even on strike, hospitals won't leave their patients to die and will keep ERs going. Basic services are always being provided. As for the shortage of other services, sure that's annoying, but society can afford a short and rare interruption of minor public services if this helps protecting the rights of the workers who provide them.

Excellent sob story about poor businesses being forced to bow down to the strikers. Business (especially big ones) can more easily afford to suspend their production than workers can afford living without their wages, you know.