Two Diverging Paths To Socialism In Britain And The EU Member-Nations.

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The Russia collusion narrative is on its last legs. Brexit has vaguely shown up in the MSM while the ‘gilets jaunes’ movement has been unceremoniously buried.
As expected, Theresa May has survived Corbyn’ no-confidence vote in her government by 19 votes.
Of the 256 Labour MPs 81 (the neoliberal Blairite wing) support a fresh Brexit referendum. The Maastricht model rules their undemocratic World Order. 
And two socialist strategists; “pragmatic” reformist Leo Panitch and revolutionary socialist Costas Lapavitsas’ diverging tactics indirectly butt heads on Labour’s socialist path to socialism in the Brexit context. The differences in their respective understanding of the fierce and indomitable power of the anti-democratic, liberal-illiberal, neoliberal EU technocracy confronting socialists seem to lie at the core of their irreconcilably divergent opinions.

If socialism in its final democratic form is to have a chance socialists must come down from their lofty academic perches and dip their toes in the shit through which “xenophobic,” “anti-semitic,” “racist,” “misogynist” and “extremist” members of the working class are obliged to muck through, each and every day.

So hats off to “barefoot” socialists living and attempting to advance socialism in the “real world,” even as their respective understanding of reality does not align and leads to widely diverging tactical approaches. 

From my own POV Lapavitsas has a far better feel and measure of the forces at play across the neoliberal, geopolitical chess-board.


So here is Costas Lapavitsas with Labour Leave:


and here is the first segment of a Sharmini Peries interview with Prof. Leo Panitch of York University and Jon Lansman of the British Labour Party's National Executive Committee:


The second segment at link: (25) UK Brexit Vote Reflects a Deep Crisis in Capitalism (Pt 2/2) - YouTube


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