kick out the jams (IMBOLC/CANDLEMAS)

horsemouth is still stung by his brother’s accusation that he is a technocratic managerialist for wanting to stay with the EU rather than follow the will of the people and leave. all he can say is that he thinks it will cost people and while they do, when challenged, say they are happy to pay any price, that doesn’t mean they will be so sanguine when they are actually paying it. he wonders what has happened to his brother’s attachment to progress that he thinks a reversion to the national form of technocratic managerialism is a good thing.

horsemouth is keen to stay out of it. he just sees the whole thing as a kettle for brewing up even more nationalist reaction with no way to lance the boil of it and shift people onto fighting the imposition of austerity (and the continued collapse of the worker’s share of GDP) which he views as having been the real problem all along. he doesn’t see the boil being lanced naturally because people will now be busy rowing over distractions like immigration and sovereignty, they will be busy blaming the EU for the next round of austerity. he doesn’t think the labour party are capable of lancing the boil or moving us out of this distribution, he doesn’t think the corbynistas are capable of doing it, he doesn’t think the extra-parliamentary left are capable of doing it, he doesn’t think it will just happen in the streets.

the corbynista position on brexit makes sense to him if he is understanding it correctly (stay out of the way, wait for it to crash, get the tories out on the back of it), horsemouth thinks of it as a way to resolve the divisions dialectically by actually going through them - but it is, of course, unprincipled on immigration (witness their half-hearted opposition to ending freedom of movement) and this is how labour always has been really.

but then the real issue is will it work - and horsemouth thinks not. as you may have noticed

horsemouth has started styling himself a remainder - rather than a remoaner, the process is underway (ok it’s not quite yet because it is a ridiculous gargantuan task quite beyond the ability of the existing ruling class), the division has been made (52-48) and all social forces not in this distribution are suddenly irrelevant.

it is groundhog day when the positive face of cyclical time (the seasons - that spring will come) is affirmed, in the film bill murray is trapped in his cynicism but a cyclical time is offered to him as a chance to do it again until he gets it right. eventually he gets it right and is set free to live. (sigh).



it is also the 50th anniversary of the release of kick out the jams (MOTHERFUCKERS!!!)