EUthanasia - the very interesting background of the EU

Follow up of the interesting background of the EU:

Of course, voting is really a means to an end. The real sacrament is power, but the Eurocrats dare not say this publicly. They have lost two crucial referenda; now they want another chance. They want two out of three.

Even if they get another chance, even if winning means rigging the computers, they will never get what they want: legitimacy. No matter what happens next, they have failed. The public will always suspect skullduggery if there are more referenda and different outcomes. The Eurocrats may win some future referenda; they will not win legitimacy. They need legitimacy, for legitimacy is what every ruler needs if he is go gain widespread voluntary compliance to his edicts. Without voluntary compliance, no ruler can implement his plans, because it takes too many policemen to force the population to comply.

CONCLUSION

This turn of events may turn out to be as important as August 19–21, 1991, when the Communists’ attempted coup against Yeltsin went belly-up.

There have been four major political movements in the West since 1776: the French Revolutionary tradition (Rousseau), which died with the Soviet Union; the limited political sovereignty movement, which I call the right wing of the Enlightenment (Adam Smith/Jefferson/Jackson); the Fabian socialist/social democracy political tradition, beginning in the late nineteenth century, which also went down with the Good Ship Marx in 1991; and managed market/political bureaucracy (Rockefeller/Keynes/Monnet). The fourth movement has just suffered its biggest setback since the defeat of Wilson’s League of Nations treaty in 1920.

I call the process EUthanasia. The voters of France and Holland stuck a needle into the arm of the sclerotic Eurocracy. Next step: the final injection. I hope I’m still around to see the death throes of that pretentious experiment in social engineering. But even if I’m not, I can see it coming.

The question is: Who will inherit? The spiritual heirs of Adam Smith or the spiritual heirs of Muhammed? Long-term, I’m betting on Adam Smith’s heirs, but probably with Chinese accents. I call it EU-then-Asia. Price competition works cultural wonders. So do container ships.

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June 4, 2005 Gary North [send him mail ] is the author of Mises on Money <http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/mom.html> . Visit http://www.freebooks.com <http://www.freebooks.com/> . He is also the author of a free multi-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible <http://www.demischools.org/economic-bible-commentary.html>

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