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The Left Case Against the EU Paperback – 19 Oct. 2018

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Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. He contends that the EU’s response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas’s powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe.

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1509531068
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Polity
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19 Oct. 2018
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English
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13.8 x 1.12 x 21.6 cm
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192 pages
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"For those wanting a clear and concise summary of the left case against the euro and of the misrepresentation of German European hegemony as the consummation of the 'European idea', there is no way around this book. Nowhere has the political economy of the common currency and of German ascendancy in Europe been more clearly exposed."
―Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

"Costas Lapavitsas is the most important commentator on the EU and its current crises, including Brexit. This is one of the most significant books on modern politics to appear in the last decade, and virtually the only one fully to grasp the nature of our present situation."
―Richard Tuck, Harvard University

"Important and timely"
―E-International Relations

"In 2015, a left-wing government in Athens was wrestling with Berlin and Brussels. Two prominent economists took part in the scuffle: one, Yanis Varoufakis, became Minister of Finance; the other, Costas Lapavitsas, was a member of the ruling party, Syriza. The first was a Europhile who viewed the capitulation of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as an invitation to struggle for 'another Europe'. The second, always the sceptic, saw his views confirmed by the debacle."
―Le Monde Diplomatique

"Expedient, informed and lucid."
―LSE Review of Books

About the Author

Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Polity; 1st edition (19 Oct. 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509531068
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509531066
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.8 x 1.12 x 21.6 cm

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G. Turner

A book for socialists who want to understand the problems with the EU

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2019

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A much needed book to counter the accusation that all those opposing the EU are right wing racists. The author gives an outlined history of the EU and its development from earlier post-war free trade areas, and then looks at the problems of today. Many on the left see the EU as internationalist, and even almost socialist, while the book explains the neoliberal nature of the EU today, the drive for free market capitalist economics and how one of its main aims is to ensure socialism can never happen in EU countries. Many socialists, perhaps most in the UK, argue that remain and reform is a better option than leaving, so he explains why reform of the EU by reversal of some of the neoliberal rules, almost impossible because of the veto. He also explains why the European Parliament is seen as toothless by many, and how distant MEPs really are from their constituents, while the Council of Ministers, European Commission, European Court of Justice, and the Eurobank are the main driving forces to entrench neoliberalism across the EU. He does acknowledge that the UK is not in the Eurozone, and so not as tightly controlled by the Eurobank as Eurozone countries.

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David J Warden

A must read for socialists and for everyone interested in the Brexit debate

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2018

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Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at SOAS. He presents a convincing case that the EU, particularly since the introduction of the euro, has become an authoritarian neoliberal transnational organisation which benefits Germany and impoverishes other states, including France. He disagrees with Yannis Varoufakis who believes that the EU can be reformed and democratised - the power structures and vested interests are too entrenched for that to be a realistic prospect. He argues that the euro is incompatible with socialism and calls for countries to exit the euro. He has a few interesting comments about Brexit in the last chapter but the book is not essentially about Brexit. It's about the bigger picture of how the EU has developed since Maastricht. Essential reading for 2019 and especially for those on the left who still harbour illusions that the EU is benign and progressive. It should be required reading for the Labour front bench over the Christmas period. The first few chapters are a bit technical if you are not an economist but well worth persisting to the end. The last chapter is the most riveting but the chapter on Greece is also very interesting and provides an alternative view to Varoufakis's 'Adults in the Room'. The book is only 141 page so highly readable in terms of wordcount!

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Argues cogently the socialist case against the EU

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2019

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In its congenital political myopia reformist social democracy in the UK and its epigones across the continent cling to their illusions of the EU as a benign project. In a mere but devastating 141 pages Professor Lapavitsas shatters all such illusions. In vain, I recommend this brilliant little book to all members of the UK Parliamentary Labour Party and its grassroots supporters.

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