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Crisis - The Failure of European Constitutionalisation
Crisis - The Failure of European Constitutionalisation

Author(s): Hauke Brunkhorst
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum
Keywords: Legislative power; Kantian mindset; Managerial mindset; Evolution; Constitution; Democracy; Crisis; Class-struggle; Transnationalization;

Summary/Abstract: Economically and in measures of social welfare the European world region is much better off than most of the other world regions. However, structurally the present situation seems worse because Europeis entrapped in its own constitutional order, and that could lead to a global explosion of the still lasting economic crisis of September 2008. The transnational political.economic ruling class has occupied the empty place of power. The ever denser networked increase of Europes functional integration without annycomprable growth of social integration blocks the road forward as well as the road back. What it needs to get out of this constituional trap is a Kantian re-framing of Europe: the switch from the ‘nation vs. nation’ code to the ‘class vs. class’ code, in other words; the transnationalization of democratic class struggle.

  • Issue Year: 2/2013
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 41-68
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: English