Slaying the Dragons
There aren’t many European presidents who’d quote Marxist economists or praise Fidel Castro. But Ireland’s Michael D. Higgins is widely backed across the political spectrum.
Oisín Gilmore is a PhD candidate in economic history at the economics, econometrics, and finance department at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is currently a visiting researcher at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
There aren’t many European presidents who’d quote Marxist economists or praise Fidel Castro. But Ireland’s Michael D. Higgins is widely backed across the political spectrum.
From the beginning, the European project had more to do with jumpstarting capitalism than ending war.