Social and economic crises serve as learning curves for both ordinary people and public intellectuals, especially the youth. Only then does class power reveal its ugliest nature, exerting tremendous pressures on societies and families.

The argument presented here is an attempt to demonstrate that there is something fundamentally wrong with the European project. The story told in this book is that the primary cause of right-wing populism and racism does not stem from civil society and the attitudes of each citizen, but from elitist institutions and the high politics of the transatlantic world, which is currently in a severe crisis and decline, due among other things to the observed shift of global power toward Asian economies.

As readers will find, this book contains much more. Many may already be wondering: what realistic political alternatives does it propose? It is clear that there is a lack of a genuine and original democratic alternative at both the national and European level to explain to the world what is really happening. This book seeks to open up such a perspective.