Europe and Capitalism: Regaining the Future

Fusaro Diego

ISBN 10: 8857526607 / ISBN 13: 9788857526607

Editore: Mimesis, 2015

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English Text.Sesto San Giovanni, 2015; paperback, pp. 130, cm 14x21. The current European Union is too often presented as the perfect realisation of a Europe of the people and freedom. The present essay overturns the common way to understand this reality. A triumph of capitalism, which has now become absolute, the creation of the European Union has in fact proceeded to destabilise the hegemony of the political. It has paved the road to an irresistible cycle of privatisations and cuts to public spending, to forced precarisation of labour and to an ever-more sharp reduction of social rights, inflicting economic violence upon the subaltern and the most economically deprived. For this reason, the only way to re-imagine the future, to vindicate the people and work, and to continue the struggle that was Marx's and Gramsci's, is to move from a radical critique of finance and the Euro.

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• Titolo: Europe and Capitalism: Regaining the Future
• Editore: Mimesis
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8857526607
• ISBN 13: 9788857526607
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: new
• Tipo di libro: Libro

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The current E​uropean Union is too often presented as the Europe of peoples and freedom. This essay overturns this common way of understanding our political reality. In fact, upon closer and unbiased analysis, Europe appears to be the result of a “passive revolution” (Gramsci) through which the dominant class, after 1989, has managed to stabilise capitalist relations of power. This happened at the expense of the force which had partly resisted it: the sovereign nation state, which gave primacy to the political over the economic and guaranteed social rights. Marking the absolute triumph of capitalism, the creation of the European Union has managed to deprive politics of any hegemony: it has paved the way to the unstoppable cycle of privatisations and cuts to public spending, to the enforced precarisation of work and to the ever sharper reduction of social rights, imposing economic violence to the detriment of the subaltern and the economically weakest peoples. For this reason, the only way to open up the future once again, to defend peoples and labour, and to carry on that struggle once fought by Marx and Gramsci, is a radical critique of the euro and contemporary finance.

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Diego Fusaro (Università Vita- Salute San Raffaele di Milano) is an attentive scholar of the “philosophy of history” and the structures of historical temporality, with particular interest for the thought of Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Gentile and Gramsci, as well as for German “conceptual history”. His books include: Bentornato Marx! (2009), Essere senza tempo (2010), Minima mercatalia. Filosofia e capitalismo (2012), and Il futuro è nostro (2014). He is also the editor of the internet project “La filosofia e i suoi eroi” (www.filosofico.net).