After the event

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 73, 2012, Pages 49-61

  Anderson, Perry ^a  

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1. Despite his demurrer, a glance at Schmitter's How to Democratize the European Union. . And Why Bother?, iconoclastic by any standards, is enough to indicate why I describe the logic of his own views as radically democratic.
2. For discussion of Ach, Europa, see The New Old World, pp. 512-4.
3. Zur Verfassung Europas, Frankfurt 2011, pp. 82-96.
4. 'The cunning of economic reason': see Zur Verfassung Europas, p. 77.
5. For example, Daniel Halberstam and Christoph Möllers, 'The German Constitutional Court Says "Ja zu Deutschland", German Law Journal, October 2009, pp. 1241-58.
6. See The Economics of Global Turbulence, London and New York 2006;
7. and taking the story up to the crash of 2008, 'What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America', cestach paper, April 2009.
8. 'The Crises of Democratic Capitalism', nlr 71, September-October 2011.
9. For figures of German wage costs between 1998 and 2006, and a forecast of their impact on the southern economies, see The New Old World, p. 52.
10. Picked for the job was the right-wing mayor of Rotterdam, Alfred Zimmerman, a stalwart of the suppression of a Dutch attempt to emulate the German revolution of November 1918, who remained in control until 1926. 'He untiringly criticized the government, emphasized its shortcomings, demanded more and more economies, more and more sacrifices from all classes of the population', and pressing 'the government to stabilize its budget on a much lower level', took the position 'that until this was brought about the control had to continue': Charles Gulick, Austria from Habsburg to Hitler, Berkeley 1948, vol. I, p. 700.
11. Christoph Schönberger, 'Hegemon wider Willen. Zur Stellung Deutschlands in der Europäische Union', Merkur, no. 752, January 2012, pp. 1-8-the first issue of the journal under a new editor. Bismarck's opinion of the Bavarians, of course, is famous: 'half-way between an Austrian and a man'.
12. The conceptual inspiration for Schönberger's construction, the inter-war jurist Heinrich Triepel, was not just an admirer of Bismarck's marshalling of Germany under Prussian hegemony. In 1933 he welcomed Hitler's assumption of power as a 'legal revolution', and ended his book on hegemony in 1938 with a paean of praise to the Führer as the statesman who, in annexing Austria and the Sudetenland, had finally realized the age-long German dream of a fully unified state: Die Hegemonie. Ein Buch von führenden Staaten, Stuttgart 1938, p. 578.
13. The New Old World, pp. 544 ff, 198-9.
14. For the political realities of the Libyan operation, and the un's mantle over it, see the detailed analysis in Hugh Roberts, 'Who Said Gaddafi Had to Go?', London Review of Books, 17 November 2011.