Theory of everything political today

aarable · 10-03-2008, 05:30 PM

MUST READ BOOK

Cultural Revolution, Cultural War by Dr Sean Gabb

ISBN: 978-0-9541032-2-4

Introduction: England, July 2007

Those who wish to change the world must first understand it. Unless we can know where we are, and why, ...........
The Blair Government was not an aberration from an otherwise healthy state of affairs. Its social and political acts were not "political correctness gone mad". Nor did its economic policies involve. “wasteful government spending". Tony Blair was not, as many gloomily or contentedly repeat, "a conservative in charge of the wrong party". Gordon Brown is not a conservative.

Nor is it the case that, if we have lost many others, conservatives have at least "won the argument over economics ". The truth is that we have lost every argument at any level that matters. ........... we have failed to set an agenda to preserve – let alone to re-establish ourselves as the free citizens of an independent country. We have lost.

Now, I will emphasise that our defeat has extended over a generation. It was already evident before Tony Blair came into office. ....... It fought wars of aggression against Serbia and Afganistan and Iraq, and justified these with the most shameless lies. ........... It hastened the transformation of our laws from a shield for the innocent into a weapon of the State. It placed us deeper under various kinds of foreign rule.

...... The personal and financial corruption of the Ministers aside, its acts were entirely a working out of principles established before 1997. There was no break in continuity between the Blair and the Thatcher and Major Governments. It is notorious that no bad act of government since 1997 has been without precedent. ...........

Nor is it important that Gordon Brown is now .......... Led by David Cameron it is possible that the Conservatives will, before 2010, win office. But will this be a victory for conservatism? We can imagine a Conservative Government. It is much harder to imagine a government of conservatives.

Just as it is possible to trace the evils ................. It is clear that our ruling class - or that loose coalition of politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, educators, and media and business people who derive wealth and power and status from an enlarged and active state – wants an end of liberal democracy.

.............. those at the top or with the right connections can enjoy the most fabulous wealth and status, and in which their enjoyment of these can never again be challenged from those below. We, the ordinary people, are to be stripped of our constitutional rights - no freedom of speech, no personal financial privacy, no procedural safeguards in the criminal law. We are to be taxed and regulated to what counts in our own culture as the edge of the breadline.This is on the one hand to provide incomes for clients of the ruling class, and on the other to deprive us of the leisure that might allow us to understand our situation and of the confidence that might allow us to challenge it. In any event, every organ of the ruling class is at work on promoting ideologies of boundless submission to the new settlement.

At the same time, structures of accountability that emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries are to be deactivated. Their form will continue. There will be assemblies at Westminster. But these will not be sovereign assemblies. ........ That authority will have been passed to various unelected and transnational agencies. ........... our votes will have little effect on what they enact.

We are passing, in England and all over the West, into the sort of world that existed before the French Revolution – ......... This sort of reaction is in future to be made impossible by promoting movements of people so that nations in the old sense disappear, and are replaced by patchwork nationalities more suspicious of each other than of the ruling class.

........... The true key to understanding lies in the analysis of class interest.

FULL TEXT SEE:

http://www.hampdenpress.co.uk/

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aarable Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 109	Theory of everything political today - book Cultural Revolution, Cutural War MUST READ BOOK Cultural Revolution, Cultural War by Dr Sean Gabb ISBN: 978-0-9541032-2-4 Introduction: England, July 2007 Those who wish to change the world must first understand it. Unless we can know where we are, and why, ........... The Blair Government was not an aberration from an otherwise healthy state of affairs. Its social and political acts were not "political correctness gone mad". Nor did its economic policies involve. “wasteful government spending". Tony Blair was not, as many gloomily or contentedly repeat, "a conservative in charge of the wrong party". Gordon Brown is not a conservative. Nor is it the case that, if we have lost many others, conservatives have at least "won the argument over economics ". The truth is that we have lost every argument at any level that matters. ........... we have failed to set an agenda to preserve – let alone to re-establish ourselves as the free citizens of an independent country. We have lost. Now, I will emphasise that our defeat has extended over a generation. It was already evident before Tony Blair came into office. ....... It fought wars of aggression against Serbia and Afganistan and Iraq, and justified these with the most shameless lies. ........... It hastened the transformation of our laws from a shield for the innocent into a weapon of the State. It placed us deeper under various kinds of foreign rule. ...... The personal and financial corruption of the Ministers aside, its acts were entirely a working out of principles established before 1997. There was no break in continuity between the Blair and the Thatcher and Major Governments. It is notorious that no bad act of government since 1997 has been without precedent. ........... Nor is it important that Gordon Brown is now .......... Led by David Cameron it is possible that the Conservatives will, before 2010, win office. But will this be a victory for conservatism? We can imagine a Conservative Government. It is much harder to imagine a government of conservatives. Just as it is possible to trace the evils ................. It is clear that our ruling class - or that loose coalition of politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, educators, and media and business people who derive wealth and power and status from an enlarged and active state – wants an end of liberal democracy. .............. those at the top or with the right connections can enjoy the most fabulous wealth and status, and in which their enjoyment of these can never again be challenged from those below. We, the ordinary people, are to be stripped of our constitutional rights - no freedom of speech, no personal financial privacy, no procedural safeguards in the criminal law. We are to be taxed and regulated to what counts in our own culture as the edge of the breadline.This is on the one hand to provide incomes for clients of the ruling class, and on the other to deprive us of the leisure that might allow us to understand our situation and of the confidence that might allow us to challenge it. In any event, every organ of the ruling class is at work on promoting ideologies of boundless submission to the new settlement. At the same time, structures of accountability that emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries are to be deactivated. Their form will continue. There will be assemblies at Westminster. But these will not be sovereign assemblies. ........ That authority will have been passed to various unelected and transnational agencies. ........... our votes will have little effect on what they enact. We are passing, in England and all over the West, into the sort of world that existed before the French Revolution – ......... This sort of reaction is in future to be made impossible by promoting movements of people so that nations in the old sense disappear, and are replaced by patchwork nationalities more suspicious of each other than of the ruling class. ........... The true key to understanding lies in the analysis of class interest. FULL TEXT SEE: http://www.hampdenpress.co.uk/ Last edited by aarable; 10-03-2008 at 05:42 PM.

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