There’s a lot of talk about the EU, not just leave or remain, but what it actually is. I don’t want to go too deeply into Brexit or remain because it’s a boring subject, but political science and ideological theory is what I used to do for a living. Let’s just do a quick explanation on what the EU is, because being a part of it affects all our lives.
The boring part: Those of us who are older will remember the heady days of the 70s as Britain entered a class war, in which strikes, demonstrations and walk outs were the norm. During the 80s Thatcher year’s, the British left took a back seat and rediscovered an Italian named Gramsci. Gramsci discovered that Marx was wrong, it wasn’t about class, but culture. No more strikes, no more workers of the world unite; the left embraced cultural Marxism, also known as identity politics with multiculturalism, diversity and equality and political correctness to silence dissent. The minorities, gays, feminists, criminals … replaced the workers and became the new revolutionaries.
It is not a coincidence that the EU began to expand politically shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, with the same top down rule, unelected commissioners, five year plans and in their own words, a ‘democratic deficiency.’ The EU system, like the previous Soviet model was never designed to be voted out, it’s a power grab by the elite politicians who run it and that’s what you can see as leading British parliamentary politicians try everything possible to keep one foot in the EU door. It’s also why the millennial generation voted en-masse to remain believing they’ve just discovered a promised utopia. They’re not the first generation to have been duped and probably not the last.
For those who want to know more the definitive documentary on what the EU actually is watch BREXIT the Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44YTTyQKyJQ . For those with less time a short article I wrote several years ago, Brexit European Union (PDF) BREXIT European Union | John V Asia Teacher - Academia.edu(no download, scroll down to read).