The values we in the western world now accept without question were born in the fierce heat of 18th Century Capitalism. They were described by Marx as bourgeois values. They were in addition to freedom from feudal oppression, the freedoms of Contract, Choice and Consent.
We all find certain things embarrassing, 'Chuggers', Mormons, Scientologists, Hasidic Jews, “happy-clappy” Christians, and Morris men. But no one wants them to stop enjoying their lives. In the 21st century, we want everyone to enjoy their lives in peace. But we might shuffle away as they
So now we have the head of the Bank of England Mark Carney pronouncing that Marxism may become relevant because of the technological revolution. He stresses that the Engels Pause which saw low wage growth during the early industrial revolution, explains low wage growth now.
Why have our long fought for legitimate 18th-century values (bourgeois values!) of free speech and free expression come under attack from our 18th-century bourgeois institutions of Parliament, Church of England, and Local authorities? In 1997 a revolution began, based on the writings of a little known
Introduction This paper is not a critique of faith. That is in the hearts and minds of the believer, something for which we have full and unequivocal respect. This paper will seek to put the case for different religions reflecting different material circumstances at any point
Attendance Tom Gilbert Darron Abbott Mark Baker Richard Thornalley Mike Gilbert Toby Gilbert Apologies Ros P-L Mark R Report on the year from Nominating Officer 16th March 2017 became party general election campaign, run in a council by-election, facebook page, twitter and we have a website and have a bank account and 3 words on urban
It seems completely crazy but at some point in the last forty years, the global elite decided that with collapsing capitalism at home the future was "engineered" (as opposed to organic) "global" capitalism. Not a global capitalism which brought countries into the "freedom family" of trading
We have tended to spend a lot of time thinking about the left, in particular, their denial of the origins of our rights in the capitalist system and their failure to grasp the importance of "surplus value" as opposed to debt in any kind of
In classical Marxist theory surplus (economic) value and the role of the workers who both create it and have it "exploited" from them by capitalists, is central to how both capitalism and socialism work. The process of taking surplus value from workers is akin to theft
Both main parties have big flaws in their understanding of the landscape of modern economics. This impedes their ability to formulate policies which will empower the working class and lift our nation out of its current diminished, debt dependent and low productive state. We have done some