‘THE City breathed a sigh of relief this morning after Labour was returned to office’ was the headline on the BBC website this morning. It went on to add ‘Labour's economic policies and the certainty will be welcomed in the financial markets’. How the World and Labour politics have changed, once the City and the financial markets would have quaked with fear at the mere prospect of a Labour Victory. Shares would drop, pop stars would be seen packing their tawdry belongings into Lear jets and jetting off to some marble mansion in the Costa Del Sol to await the return of the Tories and people would start buying gold to hide under their beds.
I think it was Lenin or it could have been Marx, I’m not quite sure this time in the morning, who once told us of the futility of democracy and of the utter futility of elections. Elections change nothing for the proletariat. All elections do is change the managers of Capitalism. Whatever political party is in power the proletariat is still the dominated class, still exploited for their labour, making fat profits for the bourgeoisie, the managers and owners of Capitalism. Elections are simply a smoke screen, a mirage that tricks us into thinking that we really do have a say in the running of our country, that we are involved – Marx has a word for this, False Consciousness.
Oh I agree that we will probably still be marginally better off under Tony Blair, than Michael Howard, yes he will make some minor concessions to keep the masses happy, buts that what they always have been and always will be, minor concessions. Most of us will never see the riches accrued by the Capitalist Bourgeois, most of us will toil in our 8hr a day, five day a week wage slave condition until its time to retire and then what? What are we promised in this rich and economically viable country, sod all? What’s the message to all of us in our 40’s and 50’s, ‘don’t expect a pension when you lot retire’ . No lets just keep on working ourselves into the ground with nothing to look forward too except penury.
And if we have been paying into a pension fund, who gets rich? Yes the pension fund owners, not us, because by the time we need a pension they’ll tell us that the market failed, stocks and shares go up and down you know, or the firm just stopped trading. This is of course, the same firms that are able to pay their directors millions of quid a year, give them huge bonuses and a pension that is larger than the Gross National Product of some smaller African States!
Don’t get me wrong I would have voted, although I didn’t simply because we moved and my vote was about 40 miles away, I would have voted purely because if we have to have somebody in power then let’s keep the idiots and Tories out, I’ve had enough of them in my life thanks very much!
Well at least the yobs in the City are happy with the outcome of the election, and it’s the result I would have wanted, although I am still awaiting the fulfilment of the predictions of Karl Marx, he does predict the collapse of Capitalism and the move to Socialism and then to Communism. (Remembering of course that what happened in the Soviet Union, China etc was not Communism as Marx envisaged or predicted). Unfortunately, it may be a long time coming as we are too wrapped up in our consumer culture, in our mobile phones, broadband downloads, and plasma TVs, the toys created to keep our minds off the real issues of the day - our domination and exploitation, and that other Lenin says, that’s John Lennon to you:
I think it was Lenin or it could have been Marx, I’m not quite sure this time in the morning, who once told us of the futility of democracy and of the utter futility of elections. Elections change nothing for the proletariat. All elections do is change the managers of Capitalism. Whatever political party is in power the proletariat is still the dominated class, still exploited for their labour, making fat profits for the bourgeoisie, the managers and owners of Capitalism. Elections are simply a smoke screen, a mirage that tricks us into thinking that we really do have a say in the running of our country, that we are involved – Marx has a word for this, False Consciousness.
Oh I agree that we will probably still be marginally better off under Tony Blair, than Michael Howard, yes he will make some minor concessions to keep the masses happy, buts that what they always have been and always will be, minor concessions. Most of us will never see the riches accrued by the Capitalist Bourgeois, most of us will toil in our 8hr a day, five day a week wage slave condition until its time to retire and then what? What are we promised in this rich and economically viable country, sod all? What’s the message to all of us in our 40’s and 50’s, ‘don’t expect a pension when you lot retire’ . No lets just keep on working ourselves into the ground with nothing to look forward too except penury.
And if we have been paying into a pension fund, who gets rich? Yes the pension fund owners, not us, because by the time we need a pension they’ll tell us that the market failed, stocks and shares go up and down you know, or the firm just stopped trading. This is of course, the same firms that are able to pay their directors millions of quid a year, give them huge bonuses and a pension that is larger than the Gross National Product of some smaller African States!
Don’t get me wrong I would have voted, although I didn’t simply because we moved and my vote was about 40 miles away, I would have voted purely because if we have to have somebody in power then let’s keep the idiots and Tories out, I’ve had enough of them in my life thanks very much!
Well at least the yobs in the City are happy with the outcome of the election, and it’s the result I would have wanted, although I am still awaiting the fulfilment of the predictions of Karl Marx, he does predict the collapse of Capitalism and the move to Socialism and then to Communism. (Remembering of course that what happened in the Soviet Union, China etc was not Communism as Marx envisaged or predicted). Unfortunately, it may be a long time coming as we are too wrapped up in our consumer culture, in our mobile phones, broadband downloads, and plasma TVs, the toys created to keep our minds off the real issues of the day - our domination and exploitation, and that other Lenin says, that’s John Lennon to you:
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
And you think you're so clever and classless and free,
But you're still fucking peasents as far as I can see,
‘Revolution – you know it makes sense’.
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