Cristian Pîrvulescu on racist economic policy

Many of the measures for battling the economic crisis are compromising democracy, the Romanian political scientist Cristian Pîrvulescu writes in the conservative daily România Liberă: "The economic boom has generated a false concept of roles, so that politics has grown increasingly distant from its basically socialist goals. Whereas in Ancient Greece the polis – which some see as the beginning of the founding of states - played first and foremost a social role, for many of today's commentators and politicians regardless of their philosophical or ideological views the role of the state is primarily an economic one. But the economy, which has in this way become no longer the means but the end, changes the priorities of governments. The different approaches to the economic, social or political consequences of the crisis lead to state actions with unforeseeable consequences. … In their almost desperate attempts to 'control the markets' the politicians have opened Pandora's Box. Racism of all types, anti-Islamism, anti-Semitism and anti-Gypsyism are now displayed freely and openly and even accepted by a large part of the population."

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