OPTIMISTIC AND PESSIMISTIC FATALISM 

Wading Through the Motions

The great, the good, the faithful, gathering

In conference halls, to bask in oration,

Of how they’re going to save the nation

Via three or four days of blathering,

As well as much waving of flags of course:

They will have the answers, once they find them.

Now all their past mistakes are behind them,

Not that they have any cause for remorse.

Immigration? Free Trade or Protection?

All the threadbare old arguments elide

As markets, not politicians, decide,

No matter who might win an election.

Leaders speak! Delegates go home again,

While ills of capitalism remain.

D. A.

The American writer, Philip K. Dick wrote, in 1956, a sci-fi story whereby by accessing inside the heads of people crimes that have not yet been committed by them can be predicted. Precrime. The story was The Minority Report. A film of the book was made in 2002.

Capitalist states are no doubt working on the means to implement this for the purpose of identifying dissidents and ‘troublemaker’ States have historically used all types of means to distinguish such individuals and to negate them, or in modern parlance, ‘cancel’ them either through locking them up or through more drastic means.

The USA is continuing this trend of determining those who do not share the ruling class’s values.

A memorandum issued by Trump,,’NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 SUBJECT:  Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized  Political Violence,’ seeks to threaten all those who do not adhere to a blind unswerving acceptance of what the State specifies.

The memorandum can be found on the White House website.

So how do you identify a ‘domestic terrorist’ according to DJT?

‘Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.’

Look up ‘McCarthyism’ on Wiki and we get:

‘President Harry S. Truman’s Executive Order 9835 of March 21, 1947, required that all federal civil-service employees be screened for “loyalty”. The order said that one basis for determining disloyalty would be a finding of “membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic association” with any organization determined by the attorney general to be “totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive” or advocating or approving the forceful denial of constitutional rights to other persons or seeking “to alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means”’

Prior to that particular states in western and eastern Europe were cracking down on those who showed ‘disloyalty’ by forcing them into camps or gulags.

Across the world, particularly those that term themselves liberal democracies, repression and suppression of free speech and dissent is under mire and more attack.

How long before Trump’s memorandum is turned into into a play-book used by more and more states for the introduction of more and more 1984 measures?

The Socialist Party of Great Britain will remain resolutely anti -capitalism and will continue to work to hasten the demise of the exploitative system which has set its face to perpetual war.

Make Capitalism History.

 Nationalism and Capitalism

ARE WE BEING SPIED ON? (Zoom)

They & We

THEY are belligerent, perfidious.

Whereas, WE are civilised, trustworthy,

Favouring an open society,

Which is why THEY connive to confound us,

Fashioning munitions, missiles and drones

To advance their ambitious aggression,

Engineering international tension;

Hostility’s the marrow in their bones.

It’s only to keep our borders secure

WE maintain peace with military might,

Only slaughter when WE decide it’s right

To do so, certain our motives are pure.

But, who are THEY? Who WE? It’s surely clear

There’ll be neither once borders disappear.

D. A.