These conclusions were made in the document I made, which you can read here -as pdf-file.
Conclusions
Increasing
the level of exploitation of the European workers is the FIRST reason
of existence of the EU
Increasing
the level of exploitation (and decreasing the “social expenditure”
is one aspect of it) is the overall policy of the EU. Because the EU
is the state-instrument of the (european part of the) capitalists in
its monopolist (imperialist) stage.
The
grafic of a (still) growth of GDP against a decrease of “social
expenditure” is made based on documents of the EU itself.
Allthough
GDP is still increasing, there is less growth. Therefore (to maintain
the same level of surplus-value extracted out of the workforces) the
ESSENTIALS of Europe's policy is to raise the level of exploitation
of the workers and so increase the productivity and decrease the
payment for the workforce (wage and taxes on wages, and all
contribution for vital (vital for the workers)servicas and funds.
And
so you see that social expenditure is already decreasing a long time,
before the ACTUAL austerity-plans everywhere in Europe.
What
is included by “Social Expenditure”
And
now about the different types of social expenditure (for example
pensions) as % of GDP (and of social expenditure)
As
you can see (in the first “pie-figure) is “pensions” the
biggest part of “social expenditure”.So that is the reason that
EVERYWHERE in Europe, member-state governements are implementing
pensionplans that has one objective: lessen the needed funds out of
which pensions has to be paid. (and THAT is the objective for example
for the increase of the age of pension)
You
see for yourself that “sickness/healthcare”is subject of the next
attack. And the “disability-plans” in the member-states where it
is strongly developed (as WAS the case in the Netherlands before the
annulation of the “Wet ArbeidsOngeschiktheid” (WAO) and IS now
the case of Belgium with its developed system of “brugpensioen”)
Also
in the memberstates where there is (still) a good sistem of replacing
income in case of unemployment, this will be under attack.
The
overall already since long time decrease of social expenditure is the
result of the already implemented austerity plans (like those in
Germany on for example “unemployment”)
The
essentials behind the decrease of social expenditure: decrease of
cost
of wages
in all its aspects. That is what Marx called: increasing
the level of exploitation
And
when social expenditure is decreasing..... the social protection
RECEIPTS can decrease also,...and that is another wish of the
capitalists.
You
can see that in the
whole EU there are similar systems of social protection receipts.
They
were the “gift” of the capitalists after the Second World War to
the workers so that their class-struggle would not develop in a
revolutionary direction to change the base of the system. (the
example of the Soviet Union was close, and there was a lot of
sympathy of the workers for that alternative system. The
system of social receipts for the development of a system of social
expenditure is principally the same in whole Europe. But concretely
each nation (or what now is a member-state of the EU) had his “own”
system.
So now it just looks
like as if it are
the respective member-state “national governements” who are....
- limiting unemployment-payment in the time,
- lowering the payment as alternative income in case of unemployment as well,
- sometimes increase the age of pension,
- or stopping all possibility of “disability-subsidy” (sometimes called “pre-pension” or in Dutch “brugpensioen”).
But
it is
all part of the overall policy of the state of the European
monopoly-capitalists: increasing the level of exploitation.
And
this can only be stopped if the European working class decides to
break the power of those monopoly-capitalists, expropriationg them
and to build a socialist planeconomy that produces in function of
real NEEDS.
Fighting
(in defense) against deterioration of once achieved reforms AND then
just in each member-state of the EU apart AND NOT building of ONE
European workers mass-struggle-organisation with an anti-imperialist
program of “expropriating” all privatised sectors and former
(member-)state-enterprises or -services and all monopolies and
monopoly-capital financial institutions to make of them unified
public European enterprises under control of a voted, working and
periodical public justifying “parliament” (with abolishing of all
installed but non-voted European institutions is what Lenin called
“economism”.
Of course this includes the building of ONE European organisation of
the van-guard of the working-class a European Communist Party (and
NOT a multitude of “national” -member-state communist parties).
(the
data on which the grafics are based you can find them on:
Eurostat
Website:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
or
on the site of OECD)
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