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A weel-known socialist might disagree with you. Marx might think it worthwhile to be free of EU ‘constitutionalism’: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/left-case-brexit <https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/left-case-brexit> —CGE > On Jul 11, 2018, at 3:57 PM, John Reimann via Marxism > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > "What we now need is a socialist Brexit." Yes, and what the jumper from the > Golden Gate Bridge needed was the suspension of the laws of gravity. > Unfortunately for both the jumper and the "Lexiteers", I'm not sure which > is less likely. > > A lot of things can be said and a lot denied about the Brexit vote. One > thing that cannot be denied with any degree of truth is that it was a right > wing, anti-immigrant vote. Sure, some - maybe most - of the workers who > voted for Brexit may not have been chauvinists, but every single interview > I saw of Brexit voters, including some pro-Brexit interviews, showed the > workers as saying that first and foremost the reason they voted for Brexit > was immigration. > > The entire Brexit vote was predicated on the idea that workers would be > better off under the rule of British capitalism vs. European capitalism. > This means that British workers should ally themselves with with the > British capitalist class. Inevitably, this means at the cost of allying > itself with the European working class. > > Unfortunately, the anti-Brexit campaign limited itself in this sense: It > wasn't enough to campaign *against *Brexit; it was and is necessary to link > that with a campaign *for* something. That "something" was and is > pan-European working class unity and a pan-European campaign for a > region-wide minimum wage, region-wide minimum social safety net, etc. The > Brexit vote makes that all the more difficult. > > As far as the issue of the EU enforcing austerity: We should remember > Marx's comment that law represents established fact. So do the EU mandates, > and the established fact is that EU mandates or not, global capitalism > requires national austerity. Show me one single capitalist government - EU > member or not - that is not enforcing this sort of austerity. > > The "left" can comfort itself with "Lexit" all it likes. It remains nothing > but a nice fairy tale which was and is preordained to come into existence > as much as is the tale of Cinderella. > > John Reimann > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/galliher%40illinois.edu _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
