Are We Totally Defeated?

Socialism is being eroded on every front! Unbelievably the Labour Party has a right-wing "think-tank"! They appear to believe the political rhetoric that the libertarian press espouses. That people on benefits are "scroungers", unwilling to seek gainful employment. That the elderly and infirm are a "costly burden" on the state. That private investment creates jobs. That immigration is the scourge of this country.

When are we going to grow up? Karl Marx argued that a revolution could only work if the proletariat were "politically aware". How aware should we be? We have people committing suicide by the dozen. We have kids thrown into poverty.  We have a floundering health care system through poor management and an urge to privatise, putting more lives at risk. We have a generation of young kids suffering mental health problems because of "lack of hope". We have a huge problem with homelessness looming as the 'bedroom tax' kicks in. We have a government Hell-bent on taking every last penny from the poor. We are returning to the "Golden Age" of Victoriana!

Soon there will be a totally divided nation. The few who have the most and the many who will have nothing. The likelihood of the few who have the most staying in this country, once they've robbed us blind, is likely to be nil. Do we have to become a Third World country before we do something to stop this rot? 

“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.

In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.

Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Working Men of All Countries, Unite!” Karl Marx