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This was a lot of fun - and likely to be quite controversial, particularly among those who are relatively new to the left who see the EU as a bastion of social democracy, freedom, etc. Thanks for having me on - looking forward to working with you again in the future ✊
Hello Paul, Are there any good texts critiquing the EU from the radical left? What were some of the resources used for this podcast? -Sincerely, a Scottish AIA supporter UP THE RA!
Also fun fact: the Netherlands is the number one FDI investor in Brazil, more than even USA. Spain is 3rd in Mexico and 2nd in Argentina meanwhile. And Norway’s Norges bank is a major FDI investor in top companies in almost all Western Hemisphere countries
I am French, but I live in Canada at the moment, and my English Canadian friends and acquaintances are always shocked that I, someone who doesn't hide how left wing I am, wants out of the European Union. They assume that because I hate the LePen, I oppose the far-right's desire to leave the EU. I don't agree with their reasons for wanting out, but I agree we need to leave. If France leaving means the EU collapses, all the better. Our Greek comrades could probably benefit from taking back control of their money and economy.
@@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes ah yes, let’s let them control their currency… so that half the EU countries will spiral into inflation disasters and ruin trade for the continent. By controlling the currency for the entire continent, the whole European economy is kept stable. Just because you have more control doesn’t mean it’s better. Brexit is a great example. Anyone who leaves the EU will go into economic decline, especially because they would be isolated from good trade deals
The e.u. always confused me, you both did a wonderful job of picking at the issue with every scrap of nuance you could find. It turned into something much bigger and more holistic than any other discussion of the e.u. I have ever encountered. Thank you sooooo much!!! You're wonderful. Great voices. Much love!!!
I am an EU citizen and consider myself a Marxist too. I am generally also very very critical of the EU. But I think this video was quite ignorant of some of the non-economic benefits of the EU. Like the freedom of movement within the EU is actually something very very valuable for a lot of people. Moreover, most of your criticism is actually concerning the Eurozone, not the EU per say. I was against the Euro and was happy my own country, Sweden, did not join the eurozone. But I find it quite hyperbolic to reduce the EU to the problems of the eurozone and therefore call for its abolition. Regarding capital controls, I fully agree though. It should be possible for each own member state to re-introduce capital controls. I think this is a position left parties should stress in their relation to the EU question, along with democratizing the EU decision making process, such as more power for the parliament and more transparency in Eurogroup meetings etc. But I find it worrisome to call for the abolition all together, it negates some of the actual potential of EUs institution for positive change that goes beyond national borders and creates a unification among people's who previously felt little to no connection to each other.
Fair critique. I agree with most of it. I forgot to acknowledge the obvious travel benefits of the EU because we were focused on critiques. The goal is to create a new international organization that is democratic and socialist.
Its freedom of movement for rich people. Nothing else. How should a poor farmer from a small greece island get to berlin to meet his family there and get back? I agree its nice for backpacking if you are part of the global North. But otherwise its just resource drainage and heavy worker exploitation.
Problem is that everything is ruled by Germans as a biggest country, it needed to change how EU works, even smaller countries should have the same voice in EU, because today system discriminates smaller countries.
I mean, it's mainly a point of the smaller countries having inconsistent policy so they can't all agree on something, and then the biggest proposal (German mainly) wins, Germany has only 40 more seats in the parliament than Poland, that's really not that big of a difference. And let's not swing the pendulum in the other direction, Germany as the biggest country by economy and populace also needs good representation
@@unitedeuropean2159 Influence of Germany is much bigger than some seats in EU parliament, whole Europe is owned by Germans and they do things that would be illegal in Germany, like selling worse quality products for higher prices in their supermarket chains, paying ridiculously low salaries for well qualified work...we have to send our electricity to Germany and then we buy it back for 10 times higher price.....this modern colonisation by Germany has to be solved, people are extremely angry here in Czechia because of this, that's why so many people see hope in growing Poland as our potential ally after UK left, because UK was our biggest ally in EU against Germany unfortunately.
@@Pidalin yes you're right, influence doesn't end in MEPs but I wanted to highlight how Germany really isn't all-powerful we just need consistent policy for our proposals to win
@@unitedeuropean2159 We really miss UK, they were mostly voting together with us, now we had just our crazy V4 group that is already dead because of too different mentalities and goals in each country of this group, so we have no influence now, it was much better for us when UK was still member.
For those of us who keep a close eye on Irish politics as well as our own domestic (in my case Scottish) and International Socialist affairs, the day Sinn Fein came out as pro-EU was the day it was finally confirmed they had jettisoned any pretence at being some sort of Socialist party and were fully on-board with neoliberalism, albeit of the Blair-esque, faux Soc-Dem variety. Nice to see this video, as it's absolute murder in the current post-Brexit environment in my country to explain to anyone remotely interested in the Left what the EU actually is, as a lot of folks see your average Brexit supporter as some knuckle dragging xenophobic reactionary, so their go to 'progressive' POV is to be pro-EU. It's so fucking infuriating tbh.
You really changed my opinion about the EU. I’m part of the Dutch Socialist Party and I hadn’t quite understood their EU opinion yet, you explained it well to me. Thanks :)
Very eye-opening - I never put two and two together and have wondered and even criticised why Corbyn would want to leave the EU. It made me self reflect on why I have certain political views, and I realised some of my views are pretty reactionary (i.e. the right wing want to leave the EU so it MUST be bad to do so).
Off topic but I have a general question. What does your process look like in terms of getting the things you read and your thoughts more organized and into words. Do you find writing, conversation, etc. helpful? I tend to have a hard time retaining info. Thanks, love your videos!
Generally my semantic memory has always been pretty good, but I find that talking about/explaining things that I read via video essays and podcasts helps me remember things. Having friends to talk to about this stuff with also helps me remember the things I learn.
He had a big conflict with the biggest successful party of that group (Polish New Left) to the point where they left it, and now Diem25 is politically dead
@@unitedeuropean2159 mmmm seems to be a very superficial analysis. 1 party leaving does not kill anything. Let alone from Poland where the Left in general seems to be dead a long time ago 😅
@@mariocamoes401 nah you didn't understand me, that party was the biggest member of Diem25 and it LEFT IT. It got 7% from the last election, and that was the biggest party in the grouping, now Yanis has nothing
I'm one of those baby leftists mentioned. One thing I honestly don't understand is how those same arguments are made about the USSR, with the very opposite conclusion that it was a marvelous thing.
I will mention two points, otherwise this video is really great and informative. First, one of the reasons Turkey is not in the EU is because of their conflict with the Kurdish population. A second reason is due to missing some sort of economic targets. Obviously, anti-Islam bias is part of the reasons, but it is a little more complicated. Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina are planned for EU ascension and will be a better test to see if their Muslim population will be an issue for the white supremacists running the process. Secondly and more importantly, I think you need to make a distinction between what the EU is and what the idea of the EU is in many peoples' heads. The idea of the EU is why it has so much support - no more war in Europe, a unifying feeling between distant peoples, free movement across borders, using the same currency in different countries, and a vague feeling of growth/prosperity/progress compared to stagnant, inward-looking domestic politics. Pretty much all of this is a byproduct at best, but more-so an illusion. What the EU actually is is well described in this video. The key to getting people to our side is to drive a wedge between the "idea of the EU" and the real institution. We might have to embrace the optimism of how it is seen and say "no, that's not the EU, that is what WE want though, and even more!". We might have to embrace what is (perceived) as the good things EU stands for and claim them for us. In particular such an approach might need to be taken in Eastern Europe and among liberals in the rest of Europe in order to win them to our point of view. Great video though, keep up the good work!
They might as well be. They're part of EFTA, EEA, NATO, the Council of Europe, Schengen, the European Defence Agency and the EU's Common Security and Defence Agency. At this point they're basically a non-participating non-voting EU member which is probably even worse for their sovereignty.
With all due respect, it is obvious that the person you have invited to talk about how the European Union works has a very superficial knowledge of how the Union works... The fact is that the Parliament does not have as much power as I would personally like, but in reality, it has much more power than the person describes, 99% of the decisions cannot be taken without the Parliament, and it facilitates the composition of the European Commission, without it it cannot be formed. Finally, the Parliament can force the Commission to make a legislative proposal..... The man is right that the Union is a bureaucratic nightmare, but the very fact that he talks so boldly about it after reading two Wikipedia articles is not intellectually honest. He thinks you are intelligent people, but the fact that you take what he says at face value does you no credit.
The EU is bad because of institutionalised neoliberalism is an un-dialectical analysis. Millionaires being able to avoid tax by moving member states IS an argument for tax laws at the EU level. Marx himself was not anti-capitalist on the basis it ties nations together in a way that avoids feudal wars. There is also an acceptance of US as federation of states, yet why the scepticism when it comes federation of EU states? The EU is far from perfect, but its big enough to hold power against multinationals and had brought peace to europe.
As someone who has worked with Syrian people and think they are wonderful. I think you are downplaying the millions of Syrian refugees that have integrated into European society.
I think Syrians are wonderful! I am part Lebanese and have been around Syrians all my life. They integrate just fine. I don't think I was downplaying anything?
Southern Europe and particularly Spain is under a semi-colonial state under the EU. Industry during the Francoist fascist regime grew up to 30% of the GDP through slave work in prisons and concentration camps and the repression of working movements that stagnated salaries throughout all of the dictatorship. During the Transition, a pact between the US supported Francoist political agents and the social-democrats backed by the USA’s policy of financing social Democrat anti-communism (and with the shameful support of “euro-communism” which dwarfed the Communist Party). Once the social democrats took the power they used progressist rethorics to sell all strategic industries to EU and US foreign investment (aka capitalists) in order to be accepted in the European Parliament, making a country with natural resources and strong industrial belt into a dependent and impoverished country in a semi-colonial relationship.
While no one on the political spectrum would argue that the EU is great, I fail to see the absence of major wars in Europe pre-Ukraine since the 2nd WW as a bad thing. I also find the narrative that a counterfactual Europe would be less neoliberal unconvincing - as if the Thatcherism that predated the Maastricht-EU has never have happened. I would also say that the commission does a better job regulating the market for the consumer than its US counterparts, despite its prescribed status as a neoliberal utopia. I find the anti-democratic foundation of the EU to be the most convincing argument against it, but you just jumped over the efforts of the parliament to raise the value of its elections by tying commissioner position to their outcome, however disappointing the first iteration may have been. For all it’s faults and shortcomings, these 2 hours didn’t convince me of the EU as a net-negative in the empowerment of workers. Bc u know, even neoliberalism is better than a continuation of whatever Europe was doing since the Neanderthals were robloxed.
As long as structure of feudalism dictatorship exists the definition of sovereign nation states and capitalism economic system integration within the structure.. hegemonic ambitions between nations always exist.. European Union 🇪🇺 is the proof of that.
I still hold the position that the EU can be "reformed", but only if Germany, the dominant economic power, has a revolution and uses the EU as a tool to Federate Europe.
When you compare the polictics of the Russian federation to that of EU institutions with a completely straight face, it shows you have no idea WHATSOEVER what you're talking about
I suggest you read more Marx and Engels then. There's no way for knowledgeable and principled Marxists to support keeping bourgeois institutions like this in place. The EU stands in direct opposition to the proletariat taking power into its own hands Read Lenin too because he was an insightful student of Marxism and writes very engagingly
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This was a lot of fun - and likely to be quite controversial, particularly among those who are relatively new to the left who see the EU as a bastion of social democracy, freedom, etc.
Thanks for having me on - looking forward to working with you again in the future ✊
Hello Paul,
Are there any good texts critiquing the EU from the radical left? What were some of the resources used for this podcast?
-Sincerely, a Scottish AIA supporter
UP THE RA!
You mentioned "Bad Samaritans". What would be other books I should read to better understand the topics you touched on in this podcast?
Thanks Marxist Paul. Your and 1D's conversation was very enlightening and thought-provoking.
@@happychey13 hi, random US person here, what do those acronyms mean?
Also fun fact: the Netherlands is the number one FDI investor in Brazil, more than even USA. Spain is 3rd in Mexico and 2nd in Argentina meanwhile. And Norway’s Norges bank is a major FDI investor in top companies in almost all Western Hemisphere countries
I am French, but I live in Canada at the moment, and my English Canadian friends and acquaintances are always shocked that I, someone who doesn't hide how left wing I am, wants out of the European Union. They assume that because I hate the LePen, I oppose the far-right's desire to leave the EU. I don't agree with their reasons for wanting out, but I agree we need to leave. If France leaving means the EU collapses, all the better. Our Greek comrades could probably benefit from taking back control of their money and economy.
I would agree with this. I think every country should be able to control its own currency for starters.
I think more than EU France needs to get out of the euro and bring back the Franc
@@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes
ah yes, let’s let them control their currency… so that half the EU countries will spiral into inflation disasters and ruin trade for the continent. By controlling the currency for the entire continent, the whole European economy is kept stable.
Just because you have more control doesn’t mean it’s better. Brexit is a great example.
Anyone who leaves the EU will go into economic decline, especially because they would be isolated from good trade deals
The e.u. always confused me, you both did a wonderful job of picking at the issue with every scrap of nuance you could find. It turned into something much bigger and more holistic than any other discussion of the e.u. I have ever encountered.
Thank you sooooo much!!!
You're wonderful. Great voices. Much love!!!
Eu more like ew
I am an EU citizen and consider myself a Marxist too. I am generally also very very critical of the EU. But I think this video was quite ignorant of some of the non-economic benefits of the EU. Like the freedom of movement within the EU is actually something very very valuable for a lot of people. Moreover, most of your criticism is actually concerning the Eurozone, not the EU per say. I was against the Euro and was happy my own country, Sweden, did not join the eurozone. But I find it quite hyperbolic to reduce the EU to the problems of the eurozone and therefore call for its abolition.
Regarding capital controls, I fully agree though. It should be possible for each own member state to re-introduce capital controls. I think this is a position left parties should stress in their relation to the EU question, along with democratizing the EU decision making process, such as more power for the parliament and more transparency in Eurogroup meetings etc.
But I find it worrisome to call for the abolition all together, it negates some of the actual potential of EUs institution for positive change that goes beyond national borders and creates a unification among people's who previously felt little to no connection to each other.
Fair critique. I agree with most of it. I forgot to acknowledge the obvious travel benefits of the EU because we were focused on critiques. The goal is to create a new international organization that is democratic and socialist.
Its freedom of movement for rich people. Nothing else. How should a poor farmer from a small greece island get to berlin to meet his family there and get back? I agree its nice for backpacking if you are part of the global North. But otherwise its just resource drainage and heavy worker exploitation.
Problem is that everything is ruled by Germans as a biggest country, it needed to change how EU works, even smaller countries should have the same voice in EU, because today system discriminates smaller countries.
I mean, it's mainly a point of the smaller countries having inconsistent policy so they can't all agree on something, and then the biggest proposal (German mainly) wins, Germany has only 40 more seats in the parliament than Poland, that's really not that big of a difference. And let's not swing the pendulum in the other direction, Germany as the biggest country by economy and populace also needs good representation
@@unitedeuropean2159 Influence of Germany is much bigger than some seats in EU parliament, whole Europe is owned by Germans and they do things that would be illegal in Germany, like selling worse quality products for higher prices in their supermarket chains, paying ridiculously low salaries for well qualified work...we have to send our electricity to Germany and then we buy it back for 10 times higher price.....this modern colonisation by Germany has to be solved, people are extremely angry here in Czechia because of this, that's why so many people see hope in growing Poland as our potential ally after UK left, because UK was our biggest ally in EU against Germany unfortunately.
@@Pidalin yes you're right, influence doesn't end in MEPs but I wanted to highlight how Germany really isn't all-powerful we just need consistent policy for our proposals to win
@@unitedeuropean2159 We really miss UK, they were mostly voting together with us, now we had just our crazy V4 group that is already dead because of too different mentalities and goals in each country of this group, so we have no influence now, it was much better for us when UK was still member.
For those of us who keep a close eye on Irish politics as well as our own domestic (in my case Scottish) and International Socialist affairs, the day Sinn Fein came out as pro-EU was the day it was finally confirmed they had jettisoned any pretence at being some sort of Socialist party and were fully on-board with neoliberalism, albeit of the Blair-esque, faux Soc-Dem variety. Nice to see this video, as it's absolute murder in the current post-Brexit environment in my country to explain to anyone remotely interested in the Left what the EU actually is, as a lot of folks see your average Brexit supporter as some knuckle dragging xenophobic reactionary, so their go to 'progressive' POV is to be pro-EU. It's so fucking infuriating tbh.
You really changed my opinion about the EU. I’m part of the Dutch Socialist Party and I hadn’t quite understood their EU opinion yet, you explained it well to me. Thanks :)
Norway is not in the EU and a few states doesn’t have the euro, like Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Poland etc. Great episode!
Very eye-opening - I never put two and two together and have wondered and even criticised why Corbyn would want to leave the EU. It made me self reflect on why I have certain political views, and I realised some of my views are pretty reactionary (i.e. the right wing want to leave the EU so it MUST be bad to do so).
Off topic but I have a general question. What does your process look like in terms of getting the things you read and your thoughts more organized and into words. Do you find writing, conversation, etc. helpful? I tend to have a hard time retaining info. Thanks, love your videos!
Generally my semantic memory has always been pretty good, but I find that talking about/explaining things that I read via video essays and podcasts helps me remember things. Having friends to talk to about this stuff with also helps me remember the things I learn.
Thank you for educational content
Michael Parenti. Thank you for teaching me about him.
“Germany also called themselves socialists in 1930s….” Sounded like Vaush here😂
I'd love to hear you guys comment on Yanis Varoufakis / Diem25, and how they envision a future progressive EU!
He had a big conflict with the biggest successful party of that group (Polish New Left) to the point where they left it, and now Diem25 is politically dead
@@unitedeuropean2159 mmmm seems to be a very superficial analysis. 1 party leaving does not kill anything. Let alone from Poland where the Left in general seems to be dead a long time ago 😅
@@mariocamoes401 nah you didn't understand me, that party was the biggest member of Diem25 and it LEFT IT. It got 7% from the last election, and that was the biggest party in the grouping, now Yanis has nothing
what a great opening statement.
Brilliant collab! Thanks so much, comrades o7
I'm one of those baby leftists mentioned. One thing I honestly don't understand is how those same arguments are made about the USSR, with the very opposite conclusion that it was a marvelous thing.
I will mention two points, otherwise this video is really great and informative. First, one of the reasons Turkey is not in the EU is because of their conflict with the Kurdish population. A second reason is due to missing some sort of economic targets. Obviously, anti-Islam bias is part of the reasons, but it is a little more complicated. Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina are planned for EU ascension and will be a better test to see if their Muslim population will be an issue for the white supremacists running the process.
Secondly and more importantly, I think you need to make a distinction between what the EU is and what the idea of the EU is in many peoples' heads. The idea of the EU is why it has so much support - no more war in Europe, a unifying feeling between distant peoples, free movement across borders, using the same currency in different countries, and a vague feeling of growth/prosperity/progress compared to stagnant, inward-looking domestic politics. Pretty much all of this is a byproduct at best, but more-so an illusion. What the EU actually is is well described in this video. The key to getting people to our side is to drive a wedge between the "idea of the EU" and the real institution. We might have to embrace the optimism of how it is seen and say "no, that's not the EU, that is what WE want though, and even more!". We might have to embrace what is (perceived) as the good things EU stands for and claim them for us. In particular such an approach might need to be taken in Eastern Europe and among liberals in the rest of Europe in order to win them to our point of view.
Great video though, keep up the good work!
1:17:40 Norway isn't in the EU.
They might as well be. They're part of EFTA, EEA, NATO, the Council of Europe, Schengen, the European Defence Agency and the EU's Common Security and Defence Agency.
At this point they're basically a non-participating non-voting EU member which is probably even worse for their sovereignty.
With all due respect, it is obvious that the person you have invited to talk about how the European Union works has a very superficial knowledge of how the Union works... The fact is that the Parliament does not have as much power as I would personally like, but in reality, it has much more power than the person describes, 99% of the decisions cannot be taken without the Parliament, and it facilitates the composition of the European Commission, without it it cannot be formed. Finally, the Parliament can force the Commission to make a legislative proposal.....
The man is right that the Union is a bureaucratic nightmare, but the very fact that he talks so boldly about it after reading two Wikipedia articles is not intellectually honest. He thinks you are intelligent people, but the fact that you take what he says at face value does you no credit.
Preach 🙏
The EU is bad because of institutionalised neoliberalism is an un-dialectical analysis. Millionaires being able to avoid tax by moving member states IS an argument for tax laws at the EU level. Marx himself was not anti-capitalist on the basis it ties nations together in a way that avoids feudal wars. There is also an acceptance of US as federation of states, yet why the scepticism when it comes federation of EU states? The EU is far from perfect, but its big enough to hold power against multinationals and had brought peace to europe.
As someone who has worked with Syrian people and think they are wonderful. I think you are downplaying the millions of Syrian refugees that have integrated into European society.
I think Syrians are wonderful! I am part Lebanese and have been around Syrians all my life. They integrate just fine. I don't think I was downplaying anything?
@@1DimeRadio I think it was more Dave about how Europeans didn't treat them well which is just not true.
@@TheKennyboy92 Dave?
@@1DimeRadio Sorry where is my brain at? Paul hahah.
Southern Europe and particularly Spain is under a semi-colonial state under the EU. Industry during the Francoist fascist regime grew up to 30% of the GDP through slave work in prisons and concentration camps and the repression of working movements that stagnated salaries throughout all of the dictatorship. During the Transition, a pact between the US supported Francoist political agents and the social-democrats backed by the USA’s policy of financing social Democrat anti-communism (and with the shameful support of “euro-communism” which dwarfed the Communist Party). Once the social democrats took the power they used progressist rethorics to sell all strategic industries to EU and US foreign investment (aka capitalists) in order to be accepted in the European Parliament, making a country with natural resources and strong industrial belt into a dependent and impoverished country in a semi-colonial relationship.
While no one on the political spectrum would argue that the EU is great, I fail to see the absence of major wars in Europe pre-Ukraine since the 2nd WW as a bad thing. I also find the narrative that a counterfactual Europe would be less neoliberal unconvincing - as if the Thatcherism that predated the Maastricht-EU has never have happened. I would also say that the commission does a better job regulating the market for the consumer than its US counterparts, despite its prescribed status as a neoliberal utopia.
I find the anti-democratic foundation of the EU to be the most convincing argument against it, but you just jumped over the efforts of the parliament to raise the value of its elections by tying commissioner position to their outcome, however disappointing the first iteration may have been. For all it’s faults and shortcomings, these 2 hours didn’t convince me of the EU as a net-negative in the empowerment of workers. Bc u know, even neoliberalism is better than a continuation of whatever Europe was doing since the Neanderthals were robloxed.
You seriously think that the eu is stopping wars from happening?
The intro is amazing
As long as structure of feudalism dictatorship exists the definition of sovereign nation states and capitalism economic system integration within the structure..
hegemonic ambitions between nations always exist.. European Union 🇪🇺 is the proof of that.
I still hold the position that the EU can be "reformed", but only if Germany, the dominant economic power, has a revolution and uses the EU as a tool to Federate Europe.
Y’all really got to work on your nervous fake-laughing.
1:50:40
When you compare the polictics of the Russian federation to that of EU institutions with a completely straight face, it shows you have no idea WHATSOEVER what you're talking about
Too much propaeductics. 15 mins.worth. Interested but......
eh?
Ok this is bs
I.m a student of Marxist and Neoriccardian economics and from the proletarian perspective European Union is a good institution
I suggest you read more Marx and Engels then. There's no way for knowledgeable and principled Marxists to support keeping bourgeois institutions like this in place. The EU stands in direct opposition to the proletariat taking power into its own hands
Read Lenin too because he was an insightful student of Marxism and writes very engagingly
The Dunning Kruger effect at work I think
What a dumb video. Anyone who thinks leaving the EU would be beneficial for them is just completely ignorant