[lbo-talk] Workers of Europe unite, you've only Euro chains to lose

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Thu Dec 22 08:24:07 PST 2011


On Dec 22, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Wojtek S wrote:


> Marv: " It also seems from here that the opposition to the
> anti-democratic "European Union" is not all or mostly nationalist, and
> even among those workers who present themselves as such, nationalism -
> as someone once put it - is but the "envelope" of their social (class)
> consciousness."
>
> [WS:] Is it not what killed the Second International or is a driving
> force of the opposition to immigrants? Nationalism seems more of paper
> weight that quashes workers' consciousness than envelope that carries
> it.

Is it "nationalism" to resist the diktats of authoritarian technocrats (should they be called Das Vierte Reich or Die Neue Neue Ordnung) ?

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64



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