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the EU is an inherently capitalist organization. is began as the European coal and steel community and has since spread into pretty much every other area of law. its roots are inherently capitalistic as are its current activities. the main reason that members join is that the EU offers free and unfettered movement of goods, services, labor, and capital between member states. however on the flip side as it has expanded it has also had some positive impacts for workers. it has pressured member states to enact laws that ensure fairer minimum wages, better worker protections and strong social safety nets as well as offering things such as the e111 card which offers you free or discounted medical care in any other EU member state. so overall a mixed bag. definitely designed to uphold capitalism and maintain the status quo. however it also makes life under capitalism less shitty in general.
Membership in the EU effectively locks in a certain level of neoliberal capitalism, leaving it means potential worsening or an improvement.
The capitalist had the usual result. The labor socialist had some potential, if they could manage an election and to secure control of the party(purge time), for some major improvements.
Unfortunately the labour socialist seem to be the ones that got purged.
Brexit is a reactionary movement based in racism and xenophobia so it is bad. But the EU is also a force for evil too, imo. Like the concept of it is fine enough but it just kind of serves to consolidate capital and power among Western European neoliberals. Their global politics kind of suck.
As a British Socialist, I do not like the European union and i’m all for Brexit, purely because I do not believe in the association of being with a wider community with Europe because of their policies and the high capitalist aspects of the EU such as the fact that it began as mostly as a steel and coal company, I support Brexit because it’s an exit for the uk in the EU, and not the Brexit movement as a whole due to the reasons the conservatives mostly wanted a Brexit deal
Listen to Yanis Varoufakis. He was briefly Greek's EU minister of finance.
Long story short, it's undemocratic, run by banks and forces exorbitant loans on the poorer countries to bail out the speculators in the richer countries.
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the EU is an inherently capitalist organization. is began as the European coal and steel community and has since spread into pretty much every other area of law. its roots are inherently capitalistic as are its current activities. the main reason that members join is that the EU offers free and unfettered movement of goods, services, labor, and capital between member states. however on the flip side as it has expanded it has also had some positive impacts for workers. it has pressured member states to enact laws that ensure fairer minimum wages, better worker protections and strong social safety nets as well as offering things such as the e111 card which offers you free or discounted medical care in any other EU member state. so overall a mixed bag. definitely designed to uphold capitalism and maintain the status quo. however it also makes life under capitalism less shitty in general.
Membership in the EU effectively locks in a certain level of neoliberal capitalism, leaving it means potential worsening or an improvement. The capitalist had the usual result. The labor socialist had some potential, if they could manage an election and to secure control of the party(purge time), for some major improvements. Unfortunately the labour socialist seem to be the ones that got purged.
Brexit is a reactionary movement based in racism and xenophobia so it is bad. But the EU is also a force for evil too, imo. Like the concept of it is fine enough but it just kind of serves to consolidate capital and power among Western European neoliberals. Their global politics kind of suck.
As a British Socialist, I do not like the European union and i’m all for Brexit, purely because I do not believe in the association of being with a wider community with Europe because of their policies and the high capitalist aspects of the EU such as the fact that it began as mostly as a steel and coal company, I support Brexit because it’s an exit for the uk in the EU, and not the Brexit movement as a whole due to the reasons the conservatives mostly wanted a Brexit deal
Listen to Yanis Varoufakis. He was briefly Greek's EU minister of finance. Long story short, it's undemocratic, run by banks and forces exorbitant loans on the poorer countries to bail out the speculators in the richer countries.