Morlock Elloi on Wed, 27 Mar 2019 22:09:50 +0100 (CET)


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<nettime> EU == USSR v2.0 ?


The arguments and narratives on EU don't really make much sense. Not that deeply entrenched sides do not have self-coherent dogmas, they do. But it all just doesn't make sense. There is a total disconnect between them and between them and reality, it seems. Immigration, sovereignty, neoliberalism, nationalism, etc. etc. ad nauseam, barren and fruitless drivel goes on and on. Especially in GB (why anyone cares so much what happens to the irrelevant inbred island is a separate topic) - intelligent people have to admit that they don't have a clue what Brexit-no-Brexit discourse is about. Not that it will prevent anyone to contributing.

Maybe, then, the real issue is completely different, and present discourses and narratives are simply psychotic avoidance of confronting it.

EU is really another attempt at communism.

Communism appears to be genetically attractive to large swaths of population, so it does come up and will continue to be coming up, one way or another. It's like when you are constipated - it *will* come out sooner or later, and you know it. The question is how much are you going to pretend and suffer in the meantime.

The first attempt, USSR, failed for known reasons. It did work in the beginning though. The same happened to EU. The really existing communism appears to be perishable matter.

The neurotic need to brand it as something else in the case of EU didn't change much, if anything. The pattern is unmistakeable: wide initial support from working class masses and honest intelligentsia, belief in transnational unity and rosy future, followed by corruption of officials and apparatchik system of government. In the post-mortem phase, flourishing of 'analysis' and bickering about the exact way the decay should proceed.

So don't be sorry about EU. Hopefully we learned something, and the next time it will be better. It *will* come out, again.





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