money -- to the "structural crisis of politics". The basic loss of the "economy's" functions is reproduced as the loss of the functions of "politics", which on its own terrain of state action, is increasingly monetarily strangulated. There is no other remedy for it than to stick to its destiny and follow the turbulent or openly catastrophic course of the disturbance of its basic functions. Trivially, the political debate about the distribution of resources is transformed into the debate about the restriction of resources. According to the situation of the national economy in a planet-wide crisis, this leads to the exclusion of entire regions or sectors of the population. The social state shrinks or is liquidated, state infrastructure sectors decline, environmental measures are limited, and the political claim to regulation becomes weaker and is finally threatened with extinction. At this point, the last glimmers of light from political life follow the progressively weaker economic cycle, upon which the structural crisis of the valorization of money has long been superimposed. Just as the environmental crisis and the crisis of "labor" and of the valorization of money mutually conceal and paralyze "politics", so also is the globalization of capital superimposed upon both forms of systemic crisis, which breaks the old molds of customary national economies, more radically abolishing even the arena for action of the political sphere. The same productive forces which structurally destroy the structural functional mechanism of "labor" and of the valorization of money from within, also dissolve, step by