Andreas Babler, a Marxist who has described the EU as a worse military alliance than NATO, is the new head of Austria’s Social Democratic Party. To win, he narrowly beat an anti-immigrant candidate. Now he must rout the Right within the party.
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.
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.