Jobbik rally in Budapest. Tamas Kovacs/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.
Paul Mason recently offered his thoughts on Brexit, lamenting the difficulty of being part of a European community that also includes millions of “closet Nazis”. He was referring mostly to the inhabitants of post-communist countries.
According to him, eastern Europeans are politically immature – they support the far right and are being used to break up the EU, just like the peasants whose support helped Louis Napoleon fracture the French Republic in the nineteenth century. But even though berating eastern Europeans can at times be understandable, the key problem is elsewhere.
