In Belgium, the cosy relationship between bourgeois and socialist politicians in coalition governments provided a hot house atmosphere in which corruption flourished, especially over the past ten years. But the present crisis has exploded this myth. At a certain stage, there will be a massive opposition in both the trade unions and the socialist parties. Even before the present events there were already symptoms of a developing opposition. This will grow in the next period, reflecting the growing discontent in society.
Society finds itself in a blind alley.
At one end of the scale, immense wealth is the cause of massive swindling and corruption. All these are symptoms of social crisis. The euphoria of the bourgeois after the fall of the Berlin Wall has turned into its opposite. They actually attempt to conceal the crisis in Belgium which terrified them. They cannot reconcile themselves to the crisis of their system.