Class War here.
Rain came down today. I guess the gardens need a drink.
It's leaving me too much time to think
Apparently, though I didn't watch it, Panorama did a good job of laying bare the government's horrendous failings. Not really failings: the obvious result of deliberate policy. The consequence of choice. Cause and effect.
Don't let them fool you. It's cause and effect. The Tories, like all capitalists, like to blame things on everything else. We can label this polyglot of causes, the winds of economic fortune. They blow, it's force majeure, don't you know? Who can be held responsible? Act of god!
No! Act of capital.
It's true to say that many capitalists don't really understand the system they operate under. Like sharks they don't know why they behave as they do; they act on instinct. Swim or die. Capitalists are like that: push down wages, drive workers harder, to produce more, or die. This is why they cry their tears in times like this: "oh we'd love to keep the staff/pay higher wages"
For many that's probably true: they don't understand how it works. Who has time for Marx? He's wrong, right? (Don't ask me, I'm no expert either.)
But that doesn't make it right. Capitalism isn't a system of morality. It's not a greedy fat cat rubbing his hands with knowing glee, though there are certainly many like that. It's an objective series of conditions that, cause and effect, produce results:
Profit comes from your labour. This is why I call capitalists vampires. They take a portion of your labour and, using propaganda (work hard comrade! Be a team player!), convince you that's the only way society can function.
Capitalists depend on private property rights to create the condition to generate profit. Ownership of the means of production. This too needs to be challenged and that stranglehold broken. They, the capitalists, are absentee owners. Like fatcat landlords owning territory in working class neighbourhoods.
Cause and effect. Good night.
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