{"id":180216,"date":"2017-06-22T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/22\/good-point-8\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T23:37:00","slug":"good-point-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/22\/good-point-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing Brexit, Ian Welsh notes that it presents a conundrum for Labour, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianwelsh.net\/you-cant-stay-in-the-eu-or-single-market-and-be-for-labours-manifesto\/\">You Can\u2019t Stay in the EU or Single Market And Be For Labour\u2019s Manifesto<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EU is structured in an aggressively Neoliberal framework, and as such, is incompatible social democracy, which is why support of the EU by the left is fundamentally self destructive.<\/p>\n<p>Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The EU is a barrier against horrible things the Tories want to do, but it is a roadblock against basic social-democratic policies that Corbyn wants.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One need only look at what has happened to Greece, where an entire country was sacrificed on the alter of neoliberalism to know this.<\/p>\n<p>The EU can work, and the EU can progress, but it needs a healthy dose of fairness and democracy to do so, and the current structure, which cares more about&nbsp; Deutsche Bank than it does about people, and sees democratic concerns regarding the EU expansion as something to be subverted.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a truly toxic mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing Brexit, Ian Welsh notes that it presents a conundrum for Labour, &#8220;You Can\u2019t Stay in the EU or Single Market And Be For Labour\u2019s Manifesto.&#8221; The EU is structured in an aggressively Neoliberal framework, and as such, is incompatible social democracy, which is why support of the EU by the left is fundamentally &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[630,374],"class_list":["post-180216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-european-union","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}