No-one, not even the Blessed Margaret, has ever accused Britain of being a socialist country. Even in their most strident propaganda, the Tories may have accused the Labour Party of wanting to turn Britain into a socialist country, but have never actually accused them of doing so. I raise this because of the atrocious level of political discourse in this pathetic nation and to illustrate the political ignorance that bedevils us, particularly from the pigsty and their supporters in the media. But most importantly to illustrate the lies and the depth of depravity the Tories will sink to perpetuate their free market fraud.
The human being is a social animal, that is beyond debate. As a result, human existence is a collective existence and public policies that genuinely benefit a social and collective species must be, by definition, social policies. Policies that have a negative impact on the social and collective are therefore anti-social and detrimental to the collective good of the species. Now I immediately confess that this is a generalisation that admits exceptions, but policies that are not necessarily social and collective that may impact positively are exactly that, exceptions, and very rare. This is important because in today's political narrative, everything that even hints at a social and collective outcome is immediately attacked by our dominant press, media, and free market obsessed politicians as socialist and therefore bad. By socialist they mean communist, Marxist, Soviet or any of the other adjectives they utilise as an insult and a threat to our way of life. That is why I tell you that they do not understand what socialism is, their socialism is a very narrow political label that really doesn't tell you anything.
Of course social and collective ideas and policies are socialist, because they are designed for a social environment. In my lifetime Britain has had the benefit of policies that are today branded as the work of the devil. For example council housing. It was a Conservative government that built over 300,000 council houses every year for over five years in the 1950's. It was Conservative governments who were responsible for the largest nationalisations seen in this country. We have had free further and higher education with generous grants, comprehensive education, regulated banks and financial institutions and high levels of personal taxation. We had workers rights, free collective bargaining, the NHS and generous welfare, unemployment benefits and old age pensions payable from age 65 for men and 60 for women.
Those are just a flavour of some of the things that the British have enjoyed in my lifetime, and we have never been considered a socialist society because Conservatives agreed with much of those policies and indeed were the authors of many of them. In that time the world didn't end, the sky didn't fall and England won the World Cup. We were a prosperous and wealthy society, but importantly we were an inclusive and healthy society. Crucially, we were still a capitalist society operating a successful mixed economy. That is why the modern Tory is a liar and a fraud, because if all such policies are Marxist type socialism as they persistently propagandise, then most of the Conservative governments we had until the loathsome Blessed Margaret soiled our political system were Marxist type socialist governments.
What such policies are defined by is common sense and humanity. They should never be defined politically and ideologically. They were designed to meet needs, whereas the modern Tory designs all his/her policies to meet ideological criteria. Such policies were functional, to cater to social necessity and to give people self-respect, dignity and a share in societies wealth and success, shorn of ideological prerogatives. But they involve costs and must be paid for and therefore to the modern Tory or Republican, they are taboo because they interfere with the necessary day to day business of robbing the British and American people and looting the national treasuries. Our societies are being ripped apart by greed and inequality and it must be resisted. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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