How do we know that the European Union must collapse? Very simply. If we only know who the founder, the theorist of the idea of the European Union was and if we take a closer look at the other projects that the same person made up in his mind.
The European Union – the idea of uniting the nations of Europe in order to suppress future wars and in order to make them grow and prosper in fraternity – this idea was made up by one Henri de Saint-Simone (1760-1825). He was a French aristocrat born into a wealthy family. Naturally, he enjoyed the privileges of his class, but he grew to become rather left-minded. During the French Revolution he renounced all his privileges and wanted to become a simple citizen (or maybe not that simple). He was against the aristocracy (his social class) and the gentry, and he supported the revolution wholeheartedly. Like all revolutionists, he wanted to improve the life of the common people, or at least that’s what he said he wished for.
Somehow during the revolution he amassed a lot of money because he speculated in real estate. Sadly, later on his speculations proved to be a big failure and so he landed up in prison. After he had been released, he had no money and relied on the support of his… former servants. Never mind that, he still wrote extensively. He wrote about how to improve society in general, and how to improve international relations.
One of his ideas was that there should be a United Europe. What made him think that a United Europe would be a good idea? Simply because after the Napoleonic Wars, when Europe was in shambles and ruin, people looked around for a solution to the problem of constant wars. One of those simplest ideas was to create one state – supreme transnational state – a European state. Henri de Saint-Simone wrote about how this supranational European state should be organized. It was in 1814, during the Vienna Congress, when the powers that had defeated Napoleon gathered in order to create peace in Europe and to draw new borders, it was during that time that Henri de Saint-Simone published his little book that was entitled The Reorganization of European Society. It was a perfect blueprint for the future European Union, the European Union as we know it today.
Why was it a perfect blueprint? Simply because he envisioned the things that you can see now: first, the supranational European parliament that we have today; second, the rights of the European supranational government and parliament that would be tasked with coordinating transnational economic undertakings; third, the right of this European parliament or European government to settle disputes between nations in order to prevent war; fourth, the idea that the European supranational government or parliament would be endowed with the right to levy its own taxes; fifth, that the supranational administrative structures would be tasked with overseeing education across Europe and fostering a shared European public morality. How about that? Aren’t we witnessing something like that nowadays?
What is the most striking is that he also envisaged the state that would initiate the creation of this European Union. True, Henri de Saint-Simone did not think it would be France and Germany but rather France and Great Britain, but that’s a detail. This franco-English core would later be joined by Germany and Italy, and then the rest of the European continent.
As you can see nowadays, all those ideas have come true. We have a European Union, we have a European parliament, and we have a European government that can decide about the fate of the nations that are the member states of the European Union. It really is so that this European supranational government and the European supranational parliament settle disputes between member-states and allocate money and they levy taxes (contributions from the member-states to the European budget). The commissioners, as we know, also try to impose a new kind of morality across Europe, a morality of libertarianism, a morality which suppresses national (patriotic) sentiments and foments rainbow sexuality.
Why did we claim at the beginning of this article that the European Union is doomed to fail, that the collapse of the European Union is inevitable? Well, simply because we know the author of this project and simply because we also know that apart from the idea of uniting the European nations the same Henri de Saint-Simone also theorised about socialism. Yes, you heard it right. Henri de Saint-Simone was one among the first one created theories about socialism – utopian socialism as it was later called by the likes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. But they heavily quoted Henri de Saint-Simone and recognized him as a precursor of the idea of a socialist society. Henri de Saint-Simone’s ideas were taken over and developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and then by the Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia.
Henri de Saint-Simone’s ideas were as follows. He viewed society as an amalgam of two classes: the industrialists (engineers, managers, craftsmen, and also… artists) and the idlers (the latter included, of course, the aristocracy, the noblemen and the clergy). Henri de Saint-Simone postulated that society should be governed by the industrialists, by people who work, people who have ideas, people who manage labour. Such society would be governed by a government experts. That future society’s motto would be From each according to his ability, to each according to his work. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
This Saint-Simonian socialism, processed by Karl Marx and developed by the likes of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, this socialism eventually came into being. It was born in Russia in 1917, and then it was exported to Eastern Europe and to some other countries in Africa, Asia (like China like North Korea) and also to the American continent (Cuba). This real socialism existed for a couple of decades to eventually collapse across the whole globe, and to collapse spectacularly with nobody shedding a tear after it. it collapsed because Henri de Saint-Simone’s project was false at its core. It failed because it tried to impose a fantasy upon reality, a fantasy of demanding from each according to his ability and granting to each according to his work.
If Henri de Saint-Simone failed in envisaging socialist society, it stands to reason that also his ideas about a United Europe were false at the core and as such are doomed. There is no doubt about that. The European Union is coming apart at the seams because the European parliament and the European government are acting against European interests: they want to wage wars they, import people from other continents, they suppress national feelings, and they try to create new morality. All of these things will contribute to a big failure of this project. Just as socialism collapsed across continents, so will the European Union because both socialism and the European Union were birthed in the sick mind of the same Henri de Saint-Simone, a real-estate fraudster who ended up in poverty.
