EU Reading List
- Thread starter chilango
- Start date
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Absolutely key, really informed my thinking on the EU is Guglielmo Carched's For another Europe: A Class Analysis of European Economic Integration. Don't have an electronic copy i'm afraid. Here's a serious review from Historical Materialism journal though.
Last edited:
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Do you just books or can we stick up links too?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I've recommended it many times, but worth posting again...
VersoBooks.com
LSE Lecture about the book here:-
Buying Time: the delayed crisis of democratic capitalism - Public lectures and events
VersoBooks.com
LSE Lecture about the book here:-
Buying Time: the delayed crisis of democratic capitalism - Public lectures and events
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I'm personally after a book (or two), preferably in accessible prose. But other stuff will surely be useful to list too.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
That looks quite heavy
Perhaps that's unavoidable - or shouldn't be avoided - but i doubt I'll get the time/space to get through that one. We're talking bite size chunks before bed, on the bus and whilst Cbeebies is on...
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
That looks good.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
In that case go for the Streeck recommended above then. After Ellen Meiksins Woods he's one of the clearest jargon free writers i can think of.That looks quite heavy
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Cool. Thanks.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
It is, and I have to say one of the most thought provoking LSE public lectures that I've been to. I'd say that Streeck has certainly helped me form my own 'world-view' of late.
eoin_k
Lawyer's fees, beetroot and music
Varoufakis's account of the current European crisis, which goes back to how the EU (ETA: or rather its predecessors the ECSC and then EEC) fitted in to the Bretton Wood system after World War II and traces some of the institutional/anti-democratic tendencies back to its origins is very readable. The fact that his analysis, which is framed in pragmatic neo-keynesian terms rather than being based on a deeper Marxist critique of capitalism, sits so far outside the mainstream terms of the debate on Europe is also telling about how fucked the whole project is.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I'd also say that the NLR's 'conversation' with Stathis Kouvelakis is very instructive.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Most defintely. The VF book btw (not read yet).
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You after articles as well? Stuff like this?
How the EU pushed France to reforms of labour law
See also.
How the EU pushed France to reforms of labour law
See also.
Last edited:
Ruling the Void is good - decent review here: LRB · Jan-Werner Müller · The party’s over
book here: VersoBooks.com
book here: VersoBooks.com
Patteran
A nowadays excuse
Bite sized chunks on a similar theme - I'd never heard of PERC before, but their blog has run a couple of interesting post-ref pieces. Contributor Will Davies references/acknowledges Streeck, & highlights this NLR article as crucial to understanding crisis - Wolfgang Streeck: The Crises of Democratic Capitalism. New Left Review 71, September-October 2011.
What sort of crisis is this?
Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit
What sort of crisis is this?
Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Here's versos left/internationalist reading list.
I've just remembered i have Perry Anderson's book on the eu, hang on:
The New Old World.
I've just remembered i have Perry Anderson's book on the eu, hang on:
The New Old World.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Oh yeah, i did have a copy of the Carchedi book. Highly highly recommended.
Patteran
A nowadays excuse
My understanding/framing of a world view, too - thanks for introducing him a few months back.
Streeck contributes to this round-up in the LRB - LRB · Where are we now?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Not much coming from the pro-eu side is there.
Great line in T.J Clark's piece, and followed up by a point on immigration that is 100% central to the linking of the eu with the capitalist management of immigration (PR'ed to the remain side as freedom of movement) but rarely talked about:
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
PERC have hosted some really good public talks of late; I'm a big fan of what they're doing at Goldsmiths.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Me to.I've started the Streeck book
The bits about the de-democratisation of capital should be rammed down the thoughts of many remain voters.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Not sure if this thread is really the place for it but I think this piece giving the view from the official Remain camp is worth reading. Not because it's particularly good (it isn't) but because it does give a picture of the views inside the liberal camp
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The thinking was that they just had to turn up. Hence the personnel not being that important.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Oh yeah, I just like how the article makes these sound like impeccable credentials for running a nation campaign.
Having now read the whole thing, every word of it made me even more convinced that a leave vote was the correct vote.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I'm trying, really trying, to read that but dear old rafael is making it quite difficult.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
This is interesting:
But over the course of the campaign, the most senior remainers found collegiate sympathy in a shared world view. As one put it: “We were the pluralist, liberal, centrist force in British politics.” Pro-Europeanism became a proxy for the fusion of economic and social liberalism that had been a dominant philosophy of the political mainstream for a generation, although its proponents were scattered across partisan boundaries. These centrists were the ruling class of an unrecognised state – call it Remainia – whose people were divided between the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems; like a tribe whose homeland has been partitioned by some insouciant Victorian cartographer.
In the days when the politics of the fringe did not threaten their intellectual security, adherents of New Labour, the Lib Dems and “Cameroon” Conservatives had never seen themselves as a fellowship of moderation. Before Corbynite radicalism seized the left and Ukip’s vinegary nationalism suffused the right, debate was conducted in shades of difference within a broad consensus. But as the referendum approached, Stronger In became the informal party of defensive liberalism – the unpopulists – although that had never been the intention.
So there you have it, economic liberalism needs defending and needs defending by the EU. Well at least it is straightforward and unequivocal in its defence of the status quo.In the days when the politics of the fringe did not threaten their intellectual security, adherents of New Labour, the Lib Dems and “Cameroon” Conservatives had never seen themselves as a fellowship of moderation. Before Corbynite radicalism seized the left and Ukip’s vinegary nationalism suffused the right, debate was conducted in shades of difference within a broad consensus. But as the referendum approached, Stronger In became the informal party of defensive liberalism – the unpopulists – although that had never been the intention.
Oh and Corbyn is a radical who has seized (not won, convinced, persuaded...) something called the left; the left which presumably could either be ignored or co-opted in happier times gone by.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
Similar threads
