I personally think that EU has been the worst thing to happen to Europe because it creates a central bureaucracy that largely aligned with US interests, and puts them over European ones. It’s also very problematic that a lot of the decision makers in EU aren’t really accountable to the people of any European nation. EU is also a full on neoliberal project and would never allow countries to pass any sort of socialist policies such as nationalization of industry.
EU made sense as an economic bloc in times of plenty where wealth could be spread to support different countries in Europe. However, when 2008 crash happened EU promptly sacrificed countries like Greece to prop up northern Europe. Now EU policy is to keep pushing economic war with Russia and China which is to direct detriment of the countries in Europe. I think that exiting the EU is likely the right thing for countries to do because that’s the only way to regain the ability to make sovereign decisions in their own interest. At that point countries can start joining BRICS and restore trade relations with the east.
There used to be a time when i believed in the EU as an internationalist project but over the years i have come to the same conclusion as you. I think the first wake up call was seeing what they did to Greece. It was all downhill from there. The EU is irredeemable.
Wrestling control from domestic bourgeoisie is a much easier task than doing it with international ones. One trick international capital uses is to ensure that no single country can be self sufficient. So, even if there was some sort of a worker revolt, they don’t have the means of production to seize domestically. This is the trick the west has been using with great success in the colonized countries of the Global South.
I personally think that EU has been the worst thing to happen to Europe because it creates a central bureaucracy that largely aligned with US interests, and puts them over European ones. It’s also very problematic that a lot of the decision makers in EU aren’t really accountable to the people of any European nation. EU is also a full on neoliberal project and would never allow countries to pass any sort of socialist policies such as nationalization of industry.
EU made sense as an economic bloc in times of plenty where wealth could be spread to support different countries in Europe. However, when 2008 crash happened EU promptly sacrificed countries like Greece to prop up northern Europe. Now EU policy is to keep pushing economic war with Russia and China which is to direct detriment of the countries in Europe. I think that exiting the EU is likely the right thing for countries to do because that’s the only way to regain the ability to make sovereign decisions in their own interest. At that point countries can start joining BRICS and restore trade relations with the east.
There used to be a time when i believed in the EU as an internationalist project but over the years i have come to the same conclusion as you. I think the first wake up call was seeing what they did to Greece. It was all downhill from there. The EU is irredeemable.
Yeah, how they dealt with 2008 crash was the turning point for me as well.
As opposed to the national bourgeoisie governments which are also not accountable to their people?
Wrestling control from domestic bourgeoisie is a much easier task than doing it with international ones. One trick international capital uses is to ensure that no single country can be self sufficient. So, even if there was some sort of a worker revolt, they don’t have the means of production to seize domestically. This is the trick the west has been using with great success in the colonized countries of the Global South.