Monday, March 5, 2018

The Coming Reconfiguration of Europe - The View of Democracy and Class Struggle


The championing of this right (i.e. the right of nations to self-determination), far from encouraging the formation of petty states,leads, on the contrary, to the freer, fearless and therefore wider and more universal formation of larger states and federations of states, which are more to the advantage of the masses and are more in keeping with economic development.' 

- Lenin, excerpted from the pamphlet 'Socialism and War,' written on the eve of Zimmerwald conference, 1915.

The Italian Election results show us that a reconfiguration of Europe is coming - The European Union the Post War Capitalist imperialist architecture has failed -  what will it be replaced with depends on our struggle and vision for a Post EU Europe ?

It has been apparent for over a 100 years that bourgeois nationalists are not the true patriots in the era of Imperialism - that lies with the working class - yes the proletariat.

Raising the working class  to the leading class in the nation is the Republican Socialist task in Scotland Wales and Ireland and the completion of the national democratic revolutions aborted by the British State in the early 20th century can now finally be realized.

National and social liberation will be that lethal combination that will see's off that 18th century construct and invented tradition of  Imperial Britannia.

However before the fall of the British State - Britannia has one last hope it is the self deception of the bourgeois nationalists of Scotland Ireland and Wales.

Because the strategic notion of sovereign independence is at odds with the supra nationalism of the European Union which did not go unnoticed by many millions throughout the British Isles in the EU Referendum in Wales,Scotland and Ireland.

The Bourgeois Nationalists by employing the tactic of Pro EU membership eats away at their very strategic aim of sovereign Independence and the British State will utilize that contradiction to maximum effect in the years ahead.

This leads us as Republican Socialists to ask the question do they really want  genuine independence or has their closet British Unionism ( Love of Queen, Members in the House of Lords even some bourgeois republican elements )  been transformed into European Unionism the wet dream of Sir Oswald Moseley post 1945.

While as Republican Socialists we stand for and deeply believe in internationalism and international organisations that give mutual respect to all nations and peoples we abhor supra (above) nationalism where an undemocratic capitalist bureaucratic elite can control our finances and law.

We look forward to forming  new international organisations of peoples of Wales and Ireland and Scotland in the coming years based on mutual respect and understanding of the real tasks of national and social liberation ahead.

We reject the great deception of the bourgeois nationalists in Scotland, Wales Ireland on the basis of a class analysis of their politics not just in theory but political practice.

We also reject those that fail to understand the class nature of politics and would force a non class patriots verses globalism agenda on the national movements which would open the door to the most ferocious national fascism.

We live in the era of the twilight of the British State formation and the French State formation and the Spanish State formation hastened by Catalonia's exposure of Spain's democratic facade and the disintegration of the European Union and liberation of  previously nationally oppressed nations - that process will take  universal as well as highly specific forms which will better understand over time.

The fierce defense of the artificial construct the  French State against the rights of other nations in France is exemplified by Marine Le Pen in her non class rhetoric of patriots verses globalism that echo the declassed Trumpen proletariat.

The process began by the British State on 29th March 2017 will reshape not just  the nations of the British Isles in Northern Europe - but hasten the re configuration of Europe over the next hundred years.

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