Costas
Lapavitsas spoke with Paul Jay of The
Real News and explained why a second Brexit
referendum will fuel the far right nightmare:
The
working class people, the poor and others who voted for Brexit in
2016, take their vote very seriously. Another referendum - before the
first one will have been implemented - will look, and it will be, a
direct negation of democracy. It will be a direct subverting of
democracy. They will have been told ‘your vote counts for nothing’.
In that
context, the only political current that can benefit is the extreme
right. And they're there. They're already active. They speak the
language of the working people.
There
are actually now out and out fascists who are organizing actively.
They call for a defense of democracy. They call for a rejection of
politicians and politics in the sense that these politicians and
official politics, democratic politics, are maneuvers used by the
rich, and they’ve got nothing to do with the poor, and so on - the
usual fascist stuff. And they’re finding an audience.
If there
is a second referendum, the extreme right and the fascists will have
a field day. They will be the only ones who will benefit in the
medium to long term from this. It will not be a good outcome.
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