How to oppose warmongering european élites? – ft. Walter Baier

Join us in this discussion with Walter Maier, President of the European Left in which he discusses EL’s position on the Eu’s rearmament plans, highlighting both ideological and material critiques. He comments on current mobilization efforts against militarization, and engages with a provocative line of questioning around how the Left risks to interpret the West’s framing of Russia – questioning whether it risks uncritically endorsing a “democratic” imperialism that ultimately serves U.S. strategic interests. The conversation explores the danger of leaving anti-imperialist rhetoric to the far right, especially when it is used to falsely position themselves as defenders of productive capital against finance. Baier also addresses the european Left’s stance on Israel’s war in Gaza and the anti-Iran escalation, and how these dynamics affect unity on the Left. The interview concludes with a political-economic analysis of the rearmament agenda, examining which sectors of capital support it and how it may promote a form of military Keynesianism – potentially triggering speculative bubbles and reinforcing the dominance of financial capital, both European and American.