3. When the Blind Are Leading the Blind, Democracy Is the Victim

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword. The Destruction of Greece as a Model for All of Europe: Is this the Future that Europe Deserves? vii
4. Preface. What Does the U.S. Want, or What to Do After Occupy? xv
5. 1. Breaking Our Eggs without the Omelette, from Cyprus to Greece. 1
6. 2. Danke Deutschland! 12
7. 3. When the Blind Are Leading the Blind, Democracy Is the Victim 21
8. 4. Why the EU Needs Croatia More than Croatia Needs the EU 26
9. 5. What Does Europe Want? 35
10. 6. Are the Nazis Living on the Moon? 43
11. 7. The Return of the Christian-conservative Revolution 50
12. 8. In the Land of Blood and Money: Angelina Jolie and the Balkans 61
13. 9. The Turkish March 70
14. 10. War and Peace in Europe: ‘Bei den Sorglosen’ 76
15. 11. Save Us from the Saviours: Europe and the Greeks 88
16. 12. ‘I’m Not Racist, but … The Blacks are Coming!’ 93
17. 13. Shoplifters of the World Unite 104
18. 14. Do Markets Have Feelings? 113
19. 15. The Courage to Cancel the Debt 121
20. 16. The Easiest Way to the Gulag Is to Joke About the Gulag 133
21. 17. We Need a Margaret Thatcher of the Left 143
22. 18. Europe Will Be Either Democratic and Social or It Will No Longer Exist (interview) 150
23. 19. ‘The Role of the European Left’ (debate) 160
24. Afterword. Europe Is Dead, Long Live Europe! 177
25. Notes 193