Do you think the EU is more communist than democratic?

Question

In 2005, an unprecedented joint declaration by the leaders of all British political groups in Brussels called for PM Tony Blair to push for an end the “medieval” practice of European legislation being decided behind closed doors. Critics claim that the Council of Ministers, the EU’s supreme law-making body, which decides two thirds of all Britain’s laws (and the majority of laws in all Western European countries), “is the only legislature outside the Communist dictatorships of North Korea and Cuba to pass laws in secret.”

Answer 1

Comparing it to communism isn't entirely wrong, but it's a big red herring, in my opinion. Sure there are similarities to the Soviet government, but their version of communism became pretty far removed from socialism -- more like a state-controlled form of capitalism.

The EU as it stands is doing something similar; in the name of benefiting the people, it's working to concentrate economic power in fewer hands. Sure some good legislation makes it through, but a lot of what they're doing is making it easier for large corporations to have their way, similar to the U.S. Calling it communism shields us from the 'capitalist' actuality.

As for this forum being democratic (re above comment) -- sure we can vote on everything, Big Brother, Pop Idol, X Factor, Yahoo Answers -- but how much influence do we have over our real lives? It's like choice in the shops -- 40 styles of jeans, but so much pressure to be sexy in a particular way or rows of processed food that all tastes like MSG and half an aisle of vegetables flown in from Spain or Kenya. Aren't we being distracted from the limited political options we currently have by the plethora of 'democracy' we experience elsewhere?

Answer 2

belgium is a monarch republic. no communist u . s . would ever enable a king to stay in means, even if if that means is constrained. the monetary gadget of belgium, like many different ecu international places, is state-capitalism.

Answer 3

It definitely democratic, even though there might be some incidents you don't like. And this question itself is a show of democratic.

Answer 4

not Communist but definitely Socialist