The Dangerous Nationalism of Europe's Left
So few people understand that right versus left politics is over. It is nationalism versus globalism- and that means the current brand of elitist globalism. This article helps to show this.
The title doesn't need to say left. Nationalism and globalism transcend the L / R paradigm.
Read the entire article in light of my preface.These leftist nationalists claim to be progressive and class conscious. They regard themselves as the champions of disenfranchised pensioners and unemployed Southern Europeans and wage their battle under the banner of democracy. But they cannot hide the fact that their answer to Europe's unresolved currency crisis, at its core, is the same answer given by Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders. Like the Continent's leading right-wing populists, they believe Europe's future lies in its past, in borders and capital controls along with the reintroduction of the deutsche mark, the French franc and the Spanish peseta -- as if all this could even out the Continent's economic conflicts like some kind of spa treatment.