German flag. Pixabay/Hans. Creative Commons.On October 13, I published a commentary on Thomas Fazi’s article about “The failure of mainstream European federalism”. On October 22, he replied to my article with a post titled “The inter-capitalist nature of Europe’s crisis”. I very much appreciate this. It helps improve our understanding of the issues at hand.
In the present piece, I comment on the latter article’s counterpoints to my own. Given that this will otherwise end up being a lengthy exposition covering a total of four posts that presumably not many will have the eagerness to follow, I try to stick to the essentials. For the sake of readability, I divide my comments in thematic sections.
Truism of German power
Thomas Fazi:
