Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Peter1469 (05-16-2016)
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Peter1469 (05-16-2016)
It's hard for people today to grasp but our ancestors just didn't think in terms of nations. Spain and France did not fight a series of wars in the 1500s, for example. The Houses of Hapsburg and Valois did. The bonds of loyalty and duty weren't conceived of in national terms.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Yes.
The EU worked fine when the economy was good and peace was the order of the day. Add the stressors of the fiscal crisis, and then the migration crisis, and the EU begins to crumble. That tells me that nationalism and the nation-state is not ready to give way to the "greater good" of the global (or in this case regional) system.
Interests are still aligned around the old nation-states.
As a historical note: interestingly it has been the Germanic tribes that have first cast off local ties and oaths to create larger systems of organization. The unification of Germany (lead by Prussia), then the EU. And Germany was floating trial balloons about turning the EU into a true federal entity- a political and economic union that would end sovereignty at the nation-state level.
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Chris (05-16-2016)