The Europe[1]
of today, despite its long-lost central position in the capitalist
world, still is home to countries where both monopolistic capitalism and
the material pre-conditions for socialism[2]
are most advanced. Faced with this reality, it is no surprise that
European peoples and workers’ movements suffered the most from the many
faceted scars and the deepest effects of the temporary comprehensive
defeat of the international working class. The specific asymmetry of
note here is that in this territory – where material pre-conditions of
socialism are most advanced and hence the...
