I still wouldn’t tell somebody “I’m gonna consolidate my ties with ur mum in an intense week of diplomacy”

sinkhole of state subsidies

Liberal economists trying to understand central planning challenge

And they’re pretty moderate, didn’t go as far as defending Hamas

The whole thing with Brexit is that the UK is even more rabidly neoliberal than the EU. The tories did it because they thought that the EU had too many regulations, they literally rejected it because of the only good things it did (selfishly to its own first class citizens of course)

Now one could argue that the best scenario would be a socialist Ireland, but given their current position that could literally get them absolutely crushed. They would have to align with the emerging world order which would be a sufficient casus belli for most EU jerks

So yeah under this paradigm rejoining the EU is… let’s say, the institutional lesser stupid

I agree, it was worth sharing for the conversation

Far from a bad article but I’m skeptical of its angle. It is rehashing the euro’s “populist” (for a lack of a better word) obsession about loss of sovereignty at the hands of the ominous EU.

The interests of the western ruling class isn’t to subjugate European nations, that is merely a mean to an end. Having a united Europe is good for preserving imperliast interests, but it’s not a necessary condition, let alone a sufficient one. Let’s remember that colonialism was achieved at a time where European nations went at war with each other.

Ukraine is key for the US to contain Russia and Europe is a US vassal since the Marshall plan. I think that’s the better interpretation of the situation

It’s been there for a long time damn how can they be so late to the party

but that’s just going to further radicalize the public

I think that, unfortunately, worker power doesn’t form as a reaction to bourgeois power, it stems from its crumbling. If the “worst rightwing regime=more revolution” was this simple then the whole West Germany debacle couldn’t have happened after Nazism. The US wouldn’t arm the worst military dictators but rather milquetoast socdems.

That said I share your optimism.

Leaving the EU would put Germany in a long term crisis of bourgeois economic power that could end up strengthening the worker’s aspirations. Just like the UK where the bourgeoisie shot itself in the foot with their reactionary nationalism combined with idiotic libertarian economics (because yeah they were complaining about EU regulations that are the only reason it’s not a shithole like the US)

It’s so “literally 1984” that citizens are expected to know that their private conversations are watched and can make authorities lose money if they react to it. You can’t make this shit up

When your economic system is so shitty than excluding a country from it actually benefits them

Omg you mean Patrick doesn’t actually exist

Yes and now there are thousands of scammers on the market lol