Guevarista wrote:
What do you think of the actual words of Bakunin that support to some degree the creation of an EU State?
As an effort to prevent war at the time in question?
I can't say but given that we had 2 world wars that kicked off in Europe you have to wonder if at the time it was sensible thinking.
That said, 'The vision thus became bigger and bigger, but Bakunin was careful to include the acceptance of secession. His eighth point declared that: "Just because a region has formed part of a State, even by voluntary accession, it by no means follows that it incurs any obligation to remain tied to it forever. No obligation in perpetuity is acceptable to human justice ... The right of free union and equally free secession comes first and foremost among all political rights; without it, confederation would be nothing but centralisation in disguise.
Bakunin refers admiringly to the Swiss Confederation "practising federation so successfully today", as he puts it and Proudhon, too, explicitly took as a model the Swiss supremacy of the commune as the unit of social organisation, linked by the canton, with a purely administrative federal council. But both remembered the events of 1848, when the Sonderbund of secessionist cantons were compelled by war to accept the new constitution of the majority. So Proudhon and Bakunin were agreed in condemning the subversion of federalism by the unitary principle. In other words, there must be a right of secession.'
Posting all of it for context helps.
Bakunin was obviously talking about a very different EU than the one in place today. An EU wide model based on Switzerland? Jesus, yes please...I'd take that over anything proffered at the moment.
