Germany's Green party (Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen) parliamentary group co-leader Renate Kuenast stands next to a poster of herself at a Environment Festival in central Berlin, June 5, 2011. Kuenast will run for mayor in the Berlin state election later this year. REUTERS/Thomas PeterBy Norman Birnbaum
The Nation
June 7, 2011
Excerpts from commentary:
Everywhere in Western Europe, the political agents of capital are reclaiming for the market the ground they lost to the state over the past half-century.
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As in the other industrial democracies, Germany has for four decades experienced a very organized counter-offensive by the proponents of the market. But singular alliance of churches and trade unions and the acquired political instincts of much of the nation prevented an assault as brutal as those of Reagan and Thatcher.
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