Re: Democracy is the opiate of the masses.

[Christoph Reuss]

Eva wrote:
> I agree totally with what you say the EU is about.
> It is the sign of a next stage of capitalism, as you say,
> fighting it, seems to me, is as futile as the Luddites
> attacking machines.

I think this comparison isn't correct, because the machines represented
true progress, whereas the EU represents regress rather than progress --
regress to centralistic megalomania like that of the Roman Empire, the
Soviet Union, the Third Reich etc.  Opposing the EU doesn't mean to
oppose progress, but to the contrary, it means to support more progressive
solutions for international cooperation.  A main theme of the EU's P.R.
is to stereotype EU opponents as old-fashioned, anti-European right-wingers.

--Chris