There’s been a similar movement in the UK. Professor Michael Wilkinson of LSE leads the charge on that front. His most renowned work is a Marxist account of how the EU constitutes an authoritarian platform (https://academic.oup.com/book/42114). Much on the scholarship in this field, as you point out, is indeed quite impenetrable unless one is familiar with the family of sources they often cite and the in-group terminology and theories at play.
There’s been a similar movement in the UK. Professor Michael Wilkinson of LSE leads the charge on that front. His most renowned work is a Marxist account of how the EU constitutes an authoritarian platform (https://academic.oup.com/book/42114). Much on the scholarship in this field, as you point out, is indeed quite impenetrable unless one is familiar with the family of sources they often cite and the in-group terminology and theories at play.