...
but it seems that the Left does not understand it
by system
failure
After 41
years, “it will be the second time the
British electorate has been asked to vote on the issue of Britain's
membership: the first referendum was held in 1975, when continued
membership was approved by 67% of voters.”
[wikipedia.org]
A lot of
things have changed since then. Ironically, Britain was setting the
foundations of the most repulsive Europe we've ever seen, back then.
Little later, Margaret Thatcher would become the central political
figure that would bring the brutal neoliberalism at the heart of the
European politics. The neoliberal doctrine would conquer the Popular
Right and Social Democrats that increasingly became the most
corrupted and lobby-occupied political powers in the Continent, until
today.
Neoliberalism
offered a false prosperity which wouldn't last too long. As a
consequence, the Left was almost vanished from the European political
scene for decades. But now, neoliberalism is using the economic
crisis inside the eurozone as a pretext to drive Europe into the new
dark era of the banking-corporate neo-Feudalism. It seems that the
Left has been caught completely unprepared to diagnose the new
conditions, in order to react dynamically and fast.
In a
previous article under the title Demonizing
pro-people policies, it was
mentioned that “The demonization propaganda
is launched every time that a "radical" comes to disturb
the plans of the ruling elite. Tsipras in Greece has been defeated
for now, but the ruling class couldn't avoid the rise of Corbyn in
UK, Iglesias in Spain and Sanders in US. Think about it. These guys
are called "radicals" by the dominant system mechanisms,
just because they want to defend whatever can be saved from the
Tsunami of the neoliberal barbarism. They are not even close to the
real Left radicalism.”
Indeed, the
behavior of a significant part of the European Left concerning the
British referendum tomorrow, shows that there is nothing "radical"
inside its "mutated" DNA. The moderate part of the European
Left, even in front of such a dramatic decline of the European
principles today, appears to be unwilling to fight - by using every
available weapon - against the onslaught of the neoliberal barbarism.
Yesterday,
the Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras, condemned emphatically a possible
result towards Brexit. He did it next to Jean-Claude Juncker who
visited Greece. Another truly repulsive picture: the "Leftist"
Tsipras wouldn't dare to say anything different in front of the
lobbyists' representative, even if he wanted.
Yet, while
we should expect such a behavior from the "mutated" Tsipras and what is left from his
party, SYRIZA, what should we say about Jeremy Corbyn? Why the most
"radical" politician in the leadership of the Labour Party
for decades, stands so clearly against Brexit?
A possible
answer is that Corbyn, Iglesias, Tsipras, and others from the
moderate European Left have made completely wrong diagnosis of where
things are going. They think that a possible Brexit will be a
significant loss against their dreams of a united Europe inside the
framework of the Leftist internationalism. They live with the
illusion that Europe can change course towards this type of
internationalism, while in reality Europe has been directed with
high-speed to the exactly opposite direction: the neoliberal
internationalism through which the banking-corporate neo-Feudalism
will soon become a reality.
It looks as
if they don't realize that Europe needs a restart and that they
should use every chance available right now to fight neoliberal
internationalism.
Inevitably,
the Far-Right took the chance to take exclusively the role of the
political power against this neoliberal internationalism, through its
own agenda of course. And we've already seen the terrible results: the
Cox assassination
and the fact that it has been exploited by the establishment to
change the balance against Brexit.
Unless the
Left decide to do the right diagnosis and fight this war determined
and united, the picture of Europe will become even more darker and
repulsive: a neo-Feudal Europe with the extreme nationalism doing the
dirty work against any remains of Democracy, rights and freedoms.
Yup, I agree. Which is why I'm voting leave tomorrow. A vote against the globalist elite.
ReplyDeleteI voted leave. I bet corbyn did too. He reluctantly went remain as his party demanded it. But he did so quietly in the hope of the implosion of conservatives on a leave vote, leaving him as the prime minister elect, if only he can survive the fall out. I cannot belive the elite establishment will let him get away with it. I hope he pulls it off.
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