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Not going to stop you in whatever you're doing, but ironically socialists tend to dislike the EU because it is primarily a common market. The reason most of the
by hnbad 5y ago
Not going to stop you in whatever you're doing, but ironically socialists tend to dislike the EU because it is primarily a common market. The reason most of the EU's leftists don't support a Brexit-style exit is that it's economic and geopolitical suicide unless your country's economy is already fully self-sufficient (i.e. if all imports and exports were shut down the country would still flourish).
Also socialists tend to be against globalization (i.e. creating a unified global market) because it strengthens multi-national corporations, which are harder to reign in than local companies (see Apple, Google and Facebook preferring to pay EU fines rather than sticking to the regulations meant to rein them in).
But you didn't say they support globalization, of course, you said they support globalism, which just incidentally happens to be a right-wing dogwhistle for the Jewish conspiracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism
But I'm sure that's entirely accidental.
EDIT: Interesting. Not complaining but it's curious to see my comments go from slowly increasing positive scores to max negative. HN voting is certainly following interesting patterns and not at all in line with its own guidelines (obviously).
- nivenkos 5y agoYeah, the EU has been run by conservatives and neoliberals since... forever? I don't think the centre-left ever had a majority in the European Parliament, and certainly not in the European Commission (i.e. the heads of state). This is why they're considering including natural gas here, the EU is basically run by German industrialists.