• rhabarba@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    I love how this is (mis)used to dismiss EU critics as “far-right”, although communists were always against the EU as well.

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      9 months ago
      1. The statement is from a member of the far right AfD party.

      2. “Communist” parties are mostly just right wing parties with a different aesthetic.

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        9 months ago
        1. Yes, it is, but it has become common practice in Germany to automatically portray things that the AfD also wants as “far-right demands”. That is, of course, utter nonsense.
        2. No, they are not.
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          9 months ago

          Because far right ideologies are nationalistic in nature, which inherently goes against the principle concept of the EU.

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            9 months ago

            The EU aims to be a supranational(ist) union. I am not entirely sure how nationalism goes against the concept of having one big European nation.