a. What is new in the EU after „entering into the complex crisis“ and what does this mean for the approach of modern left/modern socialist politics? 

– Whole generations of the population have grown up or are growing up under neoliberal hegemony. They learned thinking as individual, singular human beings, but they suffer a lack of thinking in terms of real self-determination, solidarity and justice.

– The technological basis of mass social isolation has been broadly established in modern societies. But at the same time this technological basis is intimately linked to a rising, already extremely high degree of cooperation and of the ‘socialization’ of practices.

– The natural conditions of life are continuously diminishing. Global warming and shrinking biodiversity have become irreversible. The consequences for the globally weakest are brutal. More