Contract, Choice and Consent
What will our social and political revolution look like in practice?
Contract, Choice and Consent are the three major legal advances that came with the birth of capitalism they have now become social in character accepted as the basis for our free society. With them in place revolutions will never look like previous revolutions in Russia or China where the state totally dominated the people. These revolutions were carried out in Karl Marx’s name but are not Marxist revolutions.
Whilst to contract, choose or consent using these principles should never be impeded by the state or prevented by public prejudice in respect of dealings between competent adults it should not be the duty of the state to promote or finance any group wanting to exercise their rights under these principles.
If the state goes over and above protecting a right and moves towards paying for a right to be exercised, then beyond a certain point the state loses public consent. This is the situation the bourgeois socialist elite have placed the public in, in matters relating to religion, sexuality and sexual identity.
Of course, we should respect someone’s right to identify as they wish, as Muslim, Christian, man or woman, Gay or straight but it is a matter for them as to how they exercise these rights in their dealings with others, balanced as it would need to be on the basis of reciprocated rights to contract, choose and consent.
The principles above should apply to having children too. Having children has become as a result of dramatic sociological and economic changes a subsidised lifestyle choice over which the taxpaying public at large have little choice but to pay. Parents knowing full well, they cannot afford children, go ahead and have them anyway.
The elite – clueless for a solution to a growing moral and financial crisis caused by the economic changes referred to in a previous section of this pamphlet, continue to throw taxpayers’ money at the problem. The resulting mental health crisis, domestic and child abuse and crime are for the state problems to be mitigated using large state bodies employing millions of workers. These bodies are managed and led by a very well-paid bourgeois socialist elite.
We at A Blue Revolution consider that in the absence of political legitimacy and subsidised by a clueless bourgeois state, western morality has become infused with a thoughtless “do as you like” attitude which has reduced too many adults to behaving irresponsibly. Too many adults are docile, apolitical and happily fed a diet of welfare top ups, healthcare and identity politics. One spin off from this process is that too many people no longer make grown up informed choices about things like having children or getting a job.
The modern state, managed by our bourgeois socialist elite, has given up any pretence of genuinely promoting rights and responsibilities beyond that of identity and consumer rights and responsibilities. The reason is that modern elites do not understand where economic and social value comes from and believe that what you are paid is what you are worth as this reflects what you can spend. They misunderstand that value is more than wages. Yes, value is the profit created by waged workers, but it is also the valuable work done by people trying to make society function efficiently and safely.
To try and re-establish social cohesion by encouraging personal responsibility and taking the very sensitive issue of having children as an example our suggestion is as follows.
In the twenty first century working people are intelligent enough to negotiate a proper contract for the care of their children. This contract should always precede the birth of a child. The contracting people on whatever basis, must agree to share the responsibility of the child they are having. A child with no planning or contracting would see the state take over care and no financial advantage applies to either parent. It will of course be possible for a state informed by popular opinion and based on contract, choice and consent to contract with parents in relation to education for example. We have for too long confused rights to have a child with the elite’s view that irresponsible behaviour cannot be criticised and must be a legitimate lifestyle choice.
So, we must work towards making contract, choice and consent the foundation of the British way of life and a political constitution. Nothing is given or received unless it is contracted for, freely chosen and consented to. Even welfare!
SUMMARY
Contract is based on choice and consent so this should be the basis for all relationships ensuring that everyone is free to live their lives as they wish within a legal and political framework underpinned by the common consent of the people. Irresponsible behaviour would not be encouraged. This is what Karl Marx meant by the dictatorship of the proletariat. Not a bourgeois socialist paradise for the political elite but an economically and socially more equal world where the moral framework is underpinned by liberal principles of contract, choice and consent which in turn gives expression to pro social collective behaviour.
