Louis P. wrote: "The latest issue of Class, Race and Corporate Power is now online. Founded by Ronald Cox, a professor at Florida International University, it is a bold attempt to create a unified voice for academics and non-academics on the left as an Open Access journal."
One of Cox's papers takes note of the political problems of the European Union and dissipating mass support for it: Indeed, the very establishment of a European Union around a European Central Bank that takes its cue from the German Bundesbank indicates the extent to which the European project is a corporate project ... The result has been a predictable gap between an E.U. elite that emphasizes a common European project, and European citizens who feel (correctly) that this project is being forced down their collective throats. With Social Democrats tied to the corporatist agenda of the E.U., with its topdown structure and its promise of social benefits and redistribution to the masses (which masks the neoliberalism at the heart of actual E.U. policies), the double-speak between what Social Democrats say about the benefits of the E.U. and how ordinary workers experience the actual neoliberal policies on the ground becomes harder to sustain. The result is an E.U. bureaucracy that is increasingly delegitimized, as evident by the negative votes on the E.U. Constitution in France and the Netherlands in 2005, while other votes were either cancelled or postponed as the E.U. technocrats worked to move around public opposition to save their political project. Ronald W. Cox, "The Bankruptcy of Liberalism and Social Democracy in the Neoliberal Age," Class, Race and Corporate Power, 2015, 3:1 http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=classracecorporatepower _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
