Consolidation of progressive and left-wing forces in the struggle against neo-fascism and neo-nazism in modern society and against World War III.
Consolidation of progressive and left-wing forces in the struggle against neo-fascism and neo-nazism in modern society and against World War III.
by Nil Malyguine (Communist Party of Switzerland)
The dream of a united Europe has undoubted power over people’s minds. Indeed, it is hard to say that a ‘common European home’ is a bad thing a priori. Who would not want to live on a continent without borders, where one can travel from Moscow to Lisbon freely and without restrictions? Who would not want a continent where everyone cooperates in collective security, leaving no one out?
There is no doubt that the abstract ideal of a united Europe is sharable and in many ways fascinating. However, stepping down from the world of ideas and into the world of matter, we must ask ourselves the following question: is today’s European Union capable of embodying this ideal?
The answer is clear and indisputable: the European Union does not embody the lofty ideals of a ‘common European home’, never has, and never will be able to. And all for one simple reason: a community based on equality and solidarity will never be born out of imperialism.
The imperialist nature of the European Union was obvious from its inception: the war waged on Yugoslavia, with the aim of dismembering it and encompassing it piece by piece, the aggression against Syria and Libya, the violent coup in Kyiv in 2014, not to mention the neocolonial relations imposed on much of Africa, and many other examples demonstrate the aggressive and expansionist nature of the European Union.
Moreover, the overlap between the EU and NATO, two now increasingly integrated bodies whose objectives appear virtually indistinguishable, has grown stronger over the years.
On the domestic front, things are no better: the European Union simply does not provide the democratic mechanisms that would allow it to be reformed from the inside. The European Parliament is a purely decorative structure, while the real power is centralized in governing bodies that remain outside the control of the member states and European citizens. In particular the European Commission, chaired, as is well known, by Ursula von der Leyen.
Despite this being an obvious reality even to the most superficial analysis, much of the European left continues to live with the romantic myth of the ‘common European home’. But if the fanatical pro-Europeanism of European social democracy is not surprising (after all, the classics of Marxism-Leninism have warned us amply about the turncoats of the bourgeois left), the convinced, and progressively more and more passive and uncritical adherence to the pro-European ideology of even Marxist political forces raises many questions.
Already following the liquidation of the counter-revolutionary uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, a substantial part of the communist movement in Western Europe distanced itself from the Soviet Union, opportunistically hoping to carve out more scope for reformist action in their respective countries, and producing what is in theory and even more so in practice an ideological corpse: the supposed European way to socialism, detached from the USSR and the world communist movement it led.
Over the decades, this current would end up producing Eurocommunist revisionism, which lies at the root of the misfortunes of European communism today. Even before the birth of the European Union proper, the pro-European dream reaped an important victim: Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, in his childish naivety, in the name of the ‘common European home’ dismantled the Warsaw Pact, triggering a chain reaction that led to the collapse of the USSR itself, an epochal catastrophe for socialism and humanity as a whole. Mikhail Sergeyevich himself admitted that his so-called ‘new political thinking’ was inspired by Eurocommunism.
After the Maastricht Treaty and the founding of the European Union, Eurocommunism as a whole does not understand the radical shift in history. In particular, it does not understand the fundamental irreformability of this new supranational body, instead believing that it provides opportunities for political action within it.
Among the manifestations of this misinterpretation, is the Party of the European Left, a political bloc of forces from various member states (and even non-members, as in the case of the Swiss Party of Labour), united by the illusion that they can reform the unreformable. Once again, the myth of a united Europe is stronger than the material analysis of reality.
The Europeanist sickness of the European left becomes even more evident with the advance of multipolarism in recent years: when faced with the rise of China many Euro-communist organizations take up ‘equidistant’ positions, where the new slogan ‘Neither Washington nor Beijing’ echoes the old ‘Neither Moscow nor Washington’, typical of the Trotskyist tradition. Today, as then, refusal to take sides implies effective support for the status quo of Euro-Atlantic imperialist domination.
The opportunism of this left becomes glaringly obvious after the start of the Russian armed forces’ Special Military Operation in Ukraine. The Eurocommunists either directly or indirectly support Ukrainian Nazism and the bellicose policies decided in its support by Brussels. The (either voluntary or unconscious) misunderstanding of the nature of the Russian military intervention, which is essentially anti-imperialist, and of the deep roots of the conflict, which are to be found in the expansionist aims of the EU and NATO, testifies to the now complete inability of these so-called ‘communists’ not only to affect reality, but even to critically analyze it.
Today, the European Union is a chimera that tries to synthesize often antithetical elements in hideous forms. The obsession with minority gender rights is accompanied by a complete disregard for social rights and the interests of the working class. Green deindustrialization is combined, in a truly absurd manner, with megalomaniac rearmament plans. Antifascism, fetishized and emptied of all meaning and connection to the actual anti-fascist struggle in the Second World War, is now used as a weapon against patriotic political forces, while at the same time Ukrainian neo-Nazism is welcomed into the hearth of the European home.
The Russophobia of the European leadership is pushing the world towards World War III. The attack on Russia’s heartland, planned over decades by exploiting the useful idiot of Ukraine, is not simply an aggression against Russian civilization, it is an attempt to halt the inexorable advance of multipolarism, at the head of which stands socialist China. Euro-Atlantic imperialism realizes that its world hegemony will be overwhelmed by new and healthier forces, unless progress is drowned in a sea of blood.
It is therefore the duty of every political force in Europe that calls itself communist and Marxist-Leninist, to oppose the Brussels plans with all force, to block any belligerent laws or initiatives, and to push their countries out of the European Union and NATO, without indulging in unrealizable reformist fantasies.
It is time to wake up from the Europeanist dream (or rather nightmare)!