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Welcome again to everybody. Make yourselves at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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I completely agree. It would be absurd for France to completely ditch nuclear energy in the short to medium term. We saw how “well” that worked out in Germany.
Although, to be honest I would still support Melenchon even if he insisted on going through with the anti-nuclear thing as long as he pulls France out of NATO.
Right right. Personally [since its in my feild] im biased towards nuclear energy. But Melachon would generally be a net positive. Although the recent platform i read from LFI was that they were pulling out of the integrated command structure and not the alliance entirely so im not entirely sure.
Im also biased towards Melenchon because im used to older men like him being more KKE or Galloway types in terms of social conservatism or being lethargic in terms of action like Zyuganov, so I’ll let him get away with a lot more than I probably shouldn’t tbh.
Do you think pulling out of the Euro would be feasible as well?
It will be painful but yes, it can and must be done. Is an absolute necessity and a precondition to any genuine economic transition out of neoliberalism. If you do not pull out of the Euro you will never have sovereign control over your own financial policies and therefore cannot set your own economic policies. Unless you ditch the Euro it literally does not matter who you elect, you can have a communist party get 99.9% of the votes and they still would not be able to govern as they wish. The country would still be shackled by a foreign entity controlling its currency. You will just be dragged down along with the rest of the Eurozone when the crisis hits.
Obviously most leftist parties in Europe, including LFI, are not ready to hear or understand this at the moment. Nor are most voters. Normally i would say they have to learn by failing, by winning elections, trying to govern, and then running into a brick wall and having their entire agenda be scuttled by Brussels and the ECB. As happened in Greece. My fear however is that we are so close to the precipice of the big crisis that we cannot afford to go through that painful learning experience, because the fascists will completely take over if the left crashes and burns like that. And the right has no compunctions embracing a nationalist line on things like the EU.
In Poland opposition against Euro is pretty telling, even some IMF dogs like balcerowicz are against it, though their chief reason is probably that it would endanger their cushy jobs in various ministries and national bank. Even shitlibs are low key against, proclaiming their wish to implement Euro but doing nothing towards it.
I sincerely hope Poland and Romania and Hungary stay out of it, for their own good.
Yeah me too.
I think france might push it over the edge if there’s another Eurozone crisis hitting them. If the EU tries to impose the same austerity it did on Greece onto France then I think ditching the Euro would become a lot more mainstream