Bonus: This Is Where I Leave EU

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🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Amber interviews economist and author Costas Lapavitsas about the European Union, how it works, its problems, how it relates to Brexit, and how we might think of it from a leftist perspective.

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0:00.0	Howdy kids, it's Amber here with a very special,
0:03.2	hearty helping of political education vegetables.
0:06.4	Today we're going to learn about the European Union.
0:08.9	But why, you may ask.
0:11.0	Well, American leftists are very much in the dark
0:13.0	about the EU.
0:14.0	And my interest in European politics is somewhat
0:17.6	self-serving as an American socialist.
0:20.1	Yes, I believe in building solidarity
0:22.4	between American leftists and the European workers
0:24.7	who democracies are being undermined
0:26.9	by an extra national machine of capital.
0:30.0	But more directly, EU politics generally,
0:33.4	in Brexit more specifically, are essential case studies
0:37.0	that American leftists should learn from.
0:39.9	Our nation, little American left,
0:41.8	has not been pulled from traditional working class
0:44.9	institutions.
0:46.3	And with the US labor movement on its back for years now,
0:49.4	our little ranks have a massive generational gap
0:52.2	starting around the end of history.
0:54.3	So you may have noticed, if you're in DSA,
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