The only way really to understand Brexit is as the outcome of a civil war within capitalism.
There are two dominant forms of capitalism one you could describe as house trained capitalism.
This is corporations and rich people who are prepared to
more or less go along with democracy as long as democracy doesn't get out of hand
and actually represent the interests of the people,
but as long as it's a sort of thin and narrow form of democracy they'll go with it.
What they want is stability they want regulations which protect their market position
from rougher and dirtier companies who would otherwise wipe them out.
They're happy with the administrative state.
And then there's another faction who could be described as capitalism's warlords.
These are people who don't want any constraints in their way at all,
they see taxation as illegitimate they see regulation as illegitimate.
In their unguarded moments they reveal that they see democracy as illegitimate.
People such as Peter Thiel the guy who founded PayPal says actually;
democracy and market freedom are incompatible the conflict should be resolved
in favour of this thing he calls the market.
the market is a euphemism for the power of money.
And they believe that that power should be unmediated,
that it should be able to do whatever it wants without anyone standing in its way.
And they see as their enemy house trained capitalism.
And this is really where the power lies within the whole Brexit debate is on the one side,
the august institutions of capitalism like the Confederation of British Industry,
saying this is terrible we don't want this to happen at all.
And on the other side the oligarchs from the City very powerful people who are funding
dark money think tanks and other lobby groups saying
we want to clear it all out of the way in Steve Bannon's words we want the;
"deconstruction of the administrative state"
and it's a second group the warlords of money who have won.
Everyone from American billionaires to Russian oligarchs poured money into the leave campaign.
What they see the UK as is as a beachhead within the richest and most powerful nations.
It's all very well capturing Chile as they did with the Pinochet coup which overthrew
the democratically elected government and installed a dictatorship there in the 1970s.
Or capturing Indonesia as they did with Suharto's coup in the 1960s.
But capturing a country like the UK without the need for a military coup,
well that's a much bigger price.
A country which has a permanent seat on the un security council,
a country with enormous financial and international clout.
And if you can turn that into a country which dances to the tune of warlord capitalism,
rather than of house trained capitalism well that is a fantastic victory.
The way Brexit was pitched to us was that it was all about foreigners and Europe,
and culture wars trying to establish ourselves as an independent nation.
And this view of what Brexit was about was fronted up by people like Nigel Farage.
That's just a smoke screen.
Farage and his ilk are just tools of something much bigger and much deeper than they are,
but unfortunately this smoke screen is all that the media has chosen to see.
In the case of the billionaire press that's by design they don't want us to see that this is
an attempt by the warlords of capitalism to overthrow domesticated capitalism.
In the case of the BBC it's by default they just can't see through
the smoke screen to the manoeuvres behind it.
What happens to us to the citizens of the uk is a very little interest,
we're just the grass that gets trampled in this civil war.
Now there's no doubt at all where the British government comes down,
which side it comes down on.
There was this extraordinary moment a moment which no one would ever have expected to see,
of the leader of the conservative party Boris Johnson saying f**k business,
he was talking about house trained business.
He is effectively been put into power by warlord capitalism,
by the people who want to do away with the administrative state.
And that's his role that's the role of his government it's the role
of the whole number 10 apparatus it's the role of his cabinet.
And when people thought that the sacking of Dominic Cummings,
would bring an end to that idea they were completely deluded.
It's not about Dominic Cummings it's about a much bigger apparatus,
a much bigger infrastructure of power that extends beyond government
into the dark money think tanks and the other lobby groups which are in turn funded
by these very powerful oligarchs not just within the UK but internationally.
I see myself as a Eurosceptic Remainer I'm no enthusiast for the European Union,
because I see it just as a bastion of another kind of capitalism.
A bastion of domesticated capitalism which is in a quiet war with democracy.
And what we need is neither form of capitalism.
We need a political economy which is good for the people, the people who live today,
the people of future generations, good for the rest of the living world
and is actually governed by the people themselves.
Not by this kind of capitalism or that kind of capitalism,
these corporations or those oligarchs.
A democracy which responds to people not just once every four or five years but every day,
when we have participation as well as representation.
We need a system that transcends both of these warring factions,
and puts the people in charge.
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