Angelus Novus wrote:
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> The European Union is *NOT* a project of human
> liberation!
>
> I am sorry Dennis, but this sort of political
> stupidity can only come from American europhiles who
> don't actually live in Europe.
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> I
> also have no principled objection to revolutionary
> defeatists like Carrol who advocate a defeat for the
> U.S. nation-state in the international arena by
> pushing for a united front against the U.S.(though I
> think the idea is wrong and shortsighted for other
> reasons, if correct in a Liebknechtian way).
>
> But anyone describing the EU as a liberation project,
> has crossed the boundary from tactical considerations
> into pure mystification.
Dennis is an archetypal instance of underestimating the strength of capitalism. [Others will have to decide how good an example Cox is of overestimating capitalist strength. ;->]
Carrol