Recent history, involving moreover the scandal about party contributions, seems to be clearly teaching us the one lesson that political parties may no longer be regarded as the torch-bearers of progressive policies. This shows them to have failed to fulfil their historic mission. The people affected by this, in particular the women, will thus have no choice but to develop their own alternative forms of political organisation and articulation. This explains the large number of NGO's already in existence. Thanks to the mass media, wars are nowadays enacted like theater plays.
Truth is twisted in the service of private property.
The huge industrial arms complex is beside itself with happiness. In view of this fact the attitude advocated by the feminist political scientist Claudia von Werlhof seems of paramount importance. It is a dissentient attitude within an active political system which, in rejecting any kind of patriarchate, knows no rulers. In this context the internet may be seen as a rather positive development, in that it facilitates the speedy and wide-spread dissemination of information beyond the mainstream that is ruled by financial considerations. Through a horizontal network of information the civilisation of the future will be able to create a social climate in which alternative solutions, alternatives to the presently rather desolate future prospects, will begin to blossom.