Oh my. Brexit. What does it mean?

[FireIceTalon]

I, along with almost all socialists and anti-imperialists in general tend to favor Brexit; and it makes sense since the EU is fundamentally representative of private capital and therefore, followed to its logical conclusion, anti-working class. A comrade of mine stated the following on FB:

The bolding was unnecessary, and the rant vacuous. The issues are more soberly presented by people who are not inclined to homophily. (look it up, it's a useful term to describe information age balkanization). The core issue is the rejection of too much political power being concentrated into too few hands. Sadly, getting support for that political position seems to have attracted, or awakened, some baser instinct sentiments. Politics, which in a meta sense is the art of doing things in large groups, often brings out the worst in people.

This completely ignores the socialization factors and the deteriorating of capitalist institutions that are becoming no longer sufficient to uphold the corresponding failing system. "Too much political power concentrated in too few hands" is overly reductionist, and this has been a intrinsic feature of capitalisim since day one anyways, so reducing that to the core issue doesn't even begin to make sense. No, the core issue here is the failings of neo-liberalism and globalization (economically and socially), the decay of capitalist institutions across the board, and failure a broken system to deliver on all the promises its ideologues made to a vast number of people in the wake of a post-Cold War era.

As for comrade Argue's article being vacuous, I don't know, I'd say it makes for a more complete material analysis of the situation than what you have provided thus far; even if he gets a bit wordy and goes off on tangents sometimes.

Homophily is inevitable so long as class conflict exists, and the issues are presented as such that they mirror or aim to uphold the respective, objective interests the given classes. Neutrality is a copout, and anyone claiming to be such is in denial regardless of whatever lip service they pay to centrality. As one famous professor named Zinn said, "you cannot be neutral on a moving train".