Thanks! I'd like to hear more about your critique of sustainable freight policy. Could you send me an e-mail to awoodhouselaw@gmail.com?

9/

It's 100 pages and around 60,000 words of Marxist analysis of the EU. We hope that it signals a break from the past, by introducing ideas and authors that offer a challenge to the very precepts of EU law.

Read the full symposium here 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#EULaw #Marxism

8/

Finally, my paper examines EU emissions trading arguing:

🔹 It has tended towards a regressive wealth redistribution, passing on costs to workers
🔹 The urgency of the climate crisis demands a different use of public power, to consciously shape decarbonisation.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

7/

🔹 Kivotidis' paper highlights the limitations of critical approaches to the democratic deficit which overlook the issue of class rule and state power in their, and outlines the structural function and class character of the EU.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

6/

🔹 Tzanakopoulou's paper focuses on class struggle. Distancing itself itself from liberal, idealistic readings of the EU, the paper adopts a historical materialist lens to analyse the division of class struggle betwene the trasnational and member state levels

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

5/

The rest of the symposium contains three subsatntive pieces, which use the tools of Marxism to engage in concrete EU law debates

📌 Maria Tzanakopoulou on class struggle in the EU
📌 Dimitrios Kivotidis on the democratic deficit
📌 Andrew Woodhouse on the climate crisis & emissions trading

4/
The programmatic piece:
🔹 Sets out Marxism’s distinctive theoretical and methodological approach
🔹 Outlines how Marxists from various ‘disciplines’ have understood the EU
🔹 Shows Marxist approaches can deepen and extend the insight of exsiting critical approaches to EU law

tinyurl.com/2am6x9wf

3/

The centrepiece of the symposium is a 24,000 word programmatice article laying the groundwork for future approaches to EU law by me, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2/

Our introduction reflects on why Marxism has largely been absent from EU law:

🔹 EU law is often framed as technocratic & consensual, not as a site of class struggle
🔹 The field is unusually supportive of the European project, with limited critical approaches

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Big thanks to @acelg-uva.bsky.social for the fellowship and feedback on the paper
Thanks also to @pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social @tillyclough.bsky.social, Dimitrios + Maria

Link to @europeanlawopen.bsky.social is here: doi.org/10.1017/elo....

Abstract below 👇

2: As a method of climate action, the Emissions Trading System retains captial's control over economic production, and seeks to shape that actin the direciton of climate objectives. However, the severity of climate change calls the use of public power to shape the rapid decarbonisation of society.

The paper makes a two-fold argument:

1) the Emissions Trading System has tended to increase the economic wealth of capital by redistributing economic value away from workers. By raising the cost of essential goods, the poorest in society pay the cost of climate action.

Thanks so much Ana 🙏

Big thanks to @pashukanist.bsky.social @gjdavies.bsky.social @tillyclough.bsky.social @diamondashiagbor.bsky.social and others for help with the paper along the way 🙏