Working-class Brexit votes were not self-conscious class agency

Evidence

One of the most telling — and poignant — phenomena in the wake of the UK referendum on EU membership was a particular kind of dismay expressed by some of those who had voted leave. They were alarmed by the result because “they didn’t think their vote would count”. Still others claimed that a decision this momentous shouldn’t have been left to them. Brexit may have been supported by large numbers of the working class, but this is very far from its being an expression of self-conscious working-class agency. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2044

Categorization

• XREF: Class politics section connects to Fisher’s wider critique of the missing political subjectivity of the working class. — connects to: Leave voters’ dismay shows Brexit was not real working-class agency — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2044; Supranationalist class identity among English workers retreated before nationalism; Class arrogance and xenophobia blocked British Communism from dominating the proletariat — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1223 (+3 more)
• QUESTION: How would one distinguish genuine class agency from votes merely cast by working-class people?

Broader Connections

• Leave voters’ dismay shows Brexit was not real working-class agency #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2044
• Immigration politics and Islamophobia drove the Brexit outcome in 2016. #expands (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 157
• Islamophobia and immigration anxiety drove the Brexit vote and European racist resurgence #expands (0.78)
• Working-class voters fear equality and value inequality #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2139
• Supranationalist class identity among English workers retreated before nationalism #qualifies (0.72)
• Class arrogance and xenophobia blocked British Communism from dominating the proletariat #qualifies (0.71) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1223