• Jables@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Andreas Babler, a Marxist who has described the EU as a worse military alliance than NATO

    What a strange comparison to make. Of course a world wide military alliance with many countries would be “better” than one that doesn’t even have all the countries of one continent? Anyway, I hope he will do some good for Austria.

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      1 year ago

      this is one of those things where i understand how the position comes about (left-wing skepticism to major, Western-dominated institutions) but it’s like… is this the best fight to pick or publicly make an issue? even with NATO for example pretty much all of its constituent countries want to be in it, and the benefits to running a campaign of opposition against it are pretty minimal currently. i can’t imagine trying to seriously wage a Euroskeptic campaign from the left, given how much the EU does for its constituent countries and their global bargaining power, and given the disaster that Brexit’s been.