http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/europeanleft.jpgThis presumption on the part of a segment of the European Left -- that finance capital could be made to see "reason" and be tamed as a consequence through popular pressure; that Europe could thereby go back to where it was but a few years ago, this time not through the operation of Centre-Left politics, but through the initiative of the Left that increasingly acquired hegemony in society; that democracy under Left hegemony could triumph over finance capital even while preserving the institutions of European capitalism -- has been shown to be false.

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