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My 350 on BREXIT: Liberal nationalism gives advance notice of its fascist form

“As democracy loses either way, it is to be hoped Brexit can be buried in its own technical unwieldiness to keep at least as large a playing field as possible.”

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This was a plebiscite against freedom of movement, the most fundamental proletarian demand throughout known history: if we are not even able to run away from our lords and masters, there can be no progress in history.

It has shone a light on a long-term fascist insurgency, epitomized in the assassination of a Labour MP who defended refugees by someone who wants to be known by the name ‘Death to Traitors, Freedom for Britain’.

The insurgency is fascist in two respects: one, it has at its dynamic core an anti-hegemonic, at least partly plebeian movement that aims at national re-birth by way of attacking liberal-capitalist elites whom it accuses of undermining national identity through the implantation of Black, Brown, Eastern, Jewish, Mediterranean, Muslim or Slavonic, or just any foreigners into the national body.