[...] the ontology of the European state apparatus under construction leaves no doubt. Such a different Europe will require vastly different institutions. The current European treaties and institutions are designed not just to guarantee corporate oversight over decision-making at every level or create an interventionist “defense” system, but also to defuse, co-opt, and swallow any challenge to the system in an infinity of committees and commissions, meetings and institutions. European capital is building a state apparatus to obtain bigger slices of global spoils. Calls to save the EU or the social-democratic fantasy of turning this apparatus into a tool of and for labor are just that: fantasies obscuring the class nature of existing institutions. Rather than raising awareness of the need to build a counterforce to the power of capital, such claims reinforce illusions in the neutrality of the constructed apparatus.