Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign
project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and
progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for
reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas
Lapavitsas demolishes this view.
He contends that the EU's
response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation
of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds
austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of
German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent
peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to
meaningful reform.
The solution is therefore a direct challenge
to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as
preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas's
powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful
thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging
read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe.
The Left Case Against the EU - Costas Lapavitsas
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