Brexit can best be understood as a civil war within capitalism
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Re: Brexit can best be understood as a civil war within capitalism
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#3George Monbiot is a well-known leftist book author and commentator in the UK, who regularly writes for the Guardian.
I find this analysis interesting and on point but wonder why he wrote it on Twitter as a series of tweets instead of as an article in the Guardian.
Re: Brexit can best be understood as a civil war within capitalism
#4George Monbiot is a well-known leftist book author and commentator in the UK, who regularly writes for the Guardian. I find this analysis interesting and on point but wonder why he wrote it on Twitter as a series of tweets instead of as an article in the Guardian.
Audience is different on Twitter.
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#518. A no-deal Brexit will be devastating for millions of people in the UK. But it’s not about us. We are just the grass that gets trampled in capitalism's civil war.
Is this really a capitalism civil war? Instead it sounds like a war between opposing entities for control of the definition of capitalism. Per the tweets, neither are actual capitalist, but distorted knockoffs. The winner of the war gets to crown themselves the kings & queens of capitalism. Accurate or not.
Re: Brexit can best be understood as a civil war within capitalism
#618. A no-deal Brexit will be devastating for millions of people in the UK. But it’s not about us. We are just the grass that gets trampled in capitalism's civil war. Is this really a capitalism civil war? Instead it sounds like a war between opposing entities for control of the definition of capitalism. Per the tweets, neither are actual capitalist, but distorted knockoffs. The winner of the war gets to crown themsel…
It’s about keeping the spoils not crowning.
Re: Brexit can best be understood as a civil war within capitalism
#718. A no-deal Brexit will be devastating for millions of people in the UK. But it’s not about us. We are just the grass that gets trampled in capitalism's civil war. Is this really a capitalism civil war? Instead it sounds like a war between opposing entities for control of the definition of capitalism. Per the tweets, neither are actual capitalist, but distorted knockoffs. The winner of the war gets to crown themsel…
>Per the tweets, neither are actual capitalist, but distorted knockoffs.
There are no "actual capitalists". There are only "really existing capitalists" - everything else is a no true scotchman, because those types are not some rare exceptions, but the norm for centuries...
Re: Brexit can best be understood as a civil war within capitalism
#8Brexit is seasteading.
Re: Brexit can best be understood as a civil war within capitalism
#9This is a list of points without much justification. It reads like the author is just pushing their own ideology and projecting it onto what's happening to the UK. Then around point 16 he straight up jumps into conspiracy theory teritory when he talks about "money's overlords". Kind of disappointing that this post somehow made it to the front page.
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#10I'd say Brexit is a change from one set of rules to the other, but I would not call EU or GB free markets or capitalist states, as major parts of economies are heavily regulated, including agricultural and money sector (central banking). I dislike decentralisation as war analogy, it is anything but war.