Reply To: More on Brexit

I was at a meeting last night at which one of the speakers, James Heartfield, billed as a writer for Spiked magazine, put the case for Lexit, i.e a leftwing Brexit. His arguments were based on the sovereignty and self-determination of “nations”; the EU could never be democratic as it was an artificial political entity not an organic nation and had no right to impose its will on nations such as Britain was. He defended the view that, despite capitalism being a global system, it was still possible to establish “socialism (although he no longer liked that term) in one country”, with subsidies, control on capital movement, etc. Basically, the sort of “reformism in one country” that Corbyn used to embrace. He also claimed that Theresa May didn’t really want Brexit but was working to betray it. This, coupled with the concept of an organic nation, suggests that Lexit might equally be called Rexit. I am sure he and Rees-Mogg would find they have much in common.