What Could Become A Danger

Taming The Financial Markets And Winning Back Democratic Control Over Them Is The Central Condition For Creating A New Social Balance In Germany And Europe.

We, The Social Democrats, Are Convinced That Capitalism Needs To Be Tamed A Second Time. The First Time We Achieved That In Germany For Many Decades With The Social Market Economy. That Is No Longer Enough. Now We Need To Do It In Europe And Even Globally.

The New Social Question Is: Democracy Or The Rule Of The Financial Markets. We Are Currently Witnessing The End Of An Era. The Neoliberal Ideology Has Failed Worldwide. The U.s. Movement Occupy Wall Street Is A Good Example Of This.

I'm Hearing Different Things, But There Is Concern That Stable Germany Is No Longer Quite So Stable.

The Claim That Democracy And Efficiency Are Contradictory Is Nonsense. That's Evident In The History Of Democracy Itself, Because It Is Only Democrats Who Were And Continue To Be Capable Of Learning From Mistakes. A More Appropriate Question Is To Ask Whether A Country Like China, Which Has Been So Incredibly Successful Economically, Is Actually Inefficient In Light Of Its Environmental Destruction And Its Corruption. In China's Perception, However, The Democratic Model Is Doubtlessly Inferior.