Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 89

None of this is or ever was complicated.

A slight majority voted Leave in the EU referendum of 2016. Since that time, every voter, of any and all persuasions, have seen the entire political class do literally everything in its power to overturn that result. This has enraged Leave voters and appalled a significant number of Remain voters. All we are seeing right now is the blow-back from all of the above.

Never mind that Johnson's "deal" is, in reality, May's surrender treaty with lipstick on. Never mind that (from my perspective), a socialist renewal of this country and its people has never been more needed than since the end of the Second World War. Never mind all of that. What we are now going to get is at least another five years of the shit show that is a Tory administration.

So, who do I blame most of all in all of this? I blame the fucking middle-class, petite-bourgeois, faux-left liberal wankers who now so infest the Labour party membership and who are no better than the rest of us unwashed plebs. But, who erroneously thought they were and arrogantly pressurized a Labour leadership into triangulating its way through Brexit to a Remain position and, in the process, pissed all over the working class of this country who voted, overwhelmingly, to Leave the EU.

It's been like watching a re-run of the train wreck that was the last Democrat campaign in America.

How the fuck did these arrogant wankers think this was going to end other than as it is?


Labour are going to lose this election. Possibly massively. At which point cue all of the talking heads in the mainstream media saying it is because Labour was "too left". Not because of Labour betraying their core voters over Brexit. Oh, goodness me no.

Cue, simultaneously, the ousting/retirement of Corbyn and the reinstatement of a neoliberal apologist and back to BAU and Labour's onward march towards being a simulacrum of the alliance of professional liberals, students and ethnic minorities that constitute the Democratic party in America.

In the absence of something like the above happening, Labour, as currently constructed, will possibly be destroyed anyway.

I might, at this point, have said that Labour's new Socialist Vision is over. But, the truth is, as soon as it was clear they were going to betray the working class of this country over Brexit, it was equally clear that Labour's "socialism" was all a mirage.

- Stephen Cook
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In the absence of a wider sovereignty, all the conception of a common market does is to elevate the marketplace to the status now enjoyed by the various European parliaments.

Is it the disenfranchisement of the people and the enfranchisement of market forces?

Are we now expected to go back almost a century, reject Socialism, and clasp free trade to our bosom as though it were the one solution of our social evils?

The conception of the Common Market… is the result of a political malaise following upon the failure of Socialists to use the sovereign power of their parliaments to plan their economic life… It is an escapist conception in which the play of the market forces will take the place of political responsibility…

 - Nye Bevan 1957
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"The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species.

 - Johann Gottfried Herder
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Nationalism was created as a doctrine to defend the interests of the nation in the process of its education and development. Each nation, founded at different times, is a social group that has been founded and consolidated throughout history based on blood, language, regional and cultural identity, and consists of different classes and social classes. In no country or society is there a person who is isolated from the nation. All are their members who belong to a particular class or social class, on the basis of which they have a national and a class identity.

- Kim Jong Il
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SPEECH TO KFA INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN COPENHAGEN ,DENMARK -PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG A GREAT LEADER WHO TOOK CARE OF PEOPLE”S LIVES by Dr Dermot Hudson

The great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG was a true people's leader who said that "My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God.". He was always dressed in simple and plain clothes . During the Korean War he said that if people eat millet , then he too would eat millet.

Visiting the Kumsusan Palace of the  Sun , the final resting place of the President KIM IL SUNG , several times ,  I saw the train that President KIM IL SUNG used to give on-the spot guidance (on the spot guidance means visiting units and localities not just giving guidance but learning about the needs of the people). From 1945 to 1994 the great leader President KIM IL SUNG visited 20,600 different units or workplaces in the DPRK travelling a distance of 578 ,000 kilometres the equivalent of travelling around the world many times . He spent 8600 days giving on the spot guidance which means that every almost every second of day of his life was spent giving on -the spot guidance.

  Right up to the end of his physical life  President KIM IL SUNG worked tirelessly for the people . Only two years before he passed away President KIM IL SUNG took the measure of increasing wages , salaries and allowances for the Korean people. On the 13th of February 1992  President KIM IL SUNG had the Decree of the Central People's Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea titled "On Enforcing the Policy of Pay Raises For All Workers. technicians and office employees and of increasing the income of office workers " which was to be effective from the 1st of March ,1992.  Explaining the measures of the decree President KIM IL SUNG wrote ;

  "  Now that new success have been achieved in socialist construction and the country's economic power has been further increased , our Party and the government have taken epoch making measures for markedly raising the pay of all workers , technicians and office employees , increasing the income of the co-operative farmers and granting more state benefits to the people .

  These measures are an embodiment of the long-standing policy of our Party to more satisfactorily provide people with independent and creative lives .These are historic measure which  demonstrate the superiority and invincibility of socialism in our country "

 I remember as a low paid office worker , struggling to pay for rent and food,  reading the news in the "Pyongyang Times " with great excitement . Pay for workers, office workers and technicians was to increase by 43.4 per cent !.To me this was astounding  In my country I could only dream of such a pay rise and even we when we got pay rises they invariably had strings attached to them . Social security payments for pensioners were to be increased by 50.7 per cent .! Again a dream like figure for pensioners in capitalist society . In the UK pensioners ask "will it be eating or heating ? ". The scholarships of students were to rise by 33 per cent . Prices paid to farmers for rice were to be raised by 26.2 per cent and for maize by 44.8 per cent , in order to boost their income . At the same time it was decreed that there would be no increase to the prices of food rations supplied to the people . So the increases to pay and pensions were increases in real terms .

  Also in 1992 flats for 50,000 families ( roughly 150, 000 to 250,000 people , roughly up to the size of  Nottingham in the UK )  were completed in Tongil (Reunification) street in Pyongyang .Thus people enjoyed a great leap forward in living standards thanks the people's policy of President KIM IL SUNG and the superiority of Juche-based socialist system built under his leadership.

Some 18 years earlier President KIM IL SUNG had abolished the taxation system in March 1974 making the DPRK the first tax free socialist country and at the same time reduced prices of basic commodities by up to 50 per cent . These measures combined gave Korean working people a huge boost to their income. In the difficult period after the Fatherland Liberation War President KIM IL SUNG had prices reduced on 16 occasions.

Thus President KIM IL SUNG was a great leader who took care of people’s lives and devoted his entire energy to improving living standards. 

Today the work of President KIM IL SUNG is continued by the honourable successor to the Juche revolutionary cause dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN who also devotes his energy to improving living standards of the people.

The DPRK is the only state in the world with virtually free housing , free education , free health care and no personal taxation .Our duty in KFA is to defend this and publicize its achievements . Let us unite to defend People’s Korea !

 LONG LIVE THE ETERNAL MEMORY OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG ,SUN OF JUCHE !

LONG LIVE RESPECTED MARSHAL KIM JONG UN

LONG LIVE JUCHE !

LONG LIVE SELF-RELIANCE !

LONG LIVE PEOPLE’S KOREA !

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“May every country have the right to maintain their ethnicities and choices. May every country be free from terrorism.”

- Thata Do Valle, Brazilian volunteer in Kurdistan

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“To resist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you’re never “cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance.” 

― Dominique Venner

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Zionism is not just bad for Jews and Palestinians, it is a sickness which destroys everyone it touches

The media in Britain has yet again proven it has not sense of irony.  On the day that the arch-Zionist regime headed by US President, Trump, has declared that it approves of the theft of Palestinian land by the Zionist state which occupies that area of west Asia, the UK operating media has chosen to attack the leader of the Labour Party for historical opposition to that criminal entity.

Labour leader, Corbyn, is accused of antisemitism(!) for not berating Ismail Patel at a 2008 Palestine Solidarity Rally where he stated,

“we see the impact of Zionism on Palestinians, but it has had a devastating effect on the Jewish community itself: it has made them immoral in justice.”

The thoroughly Zionised media in Britain condemns Corbyn for concurring with a statement which is self-evidently correct.  Zionism is an ideology which has destroyed an entire nation in the west of Asia, and has corrupted every nation where it has been allowed to take root.  The UK is a perfect example of Zionist degeneracy, with what amounts to the religion of global capitalism enshrined in law.  Criticism of the right of the global banking criminals to set up a global headquarters hiding behind the mythology of a people who existed two millenniums ago, is illegal in all but name in the UK.  All politicians have to visit occupied Palestine to pay homage to the cult of Zionism which uses myriad lies and diversions to ensure the unjust economic rape of the globe goes unopposed, nay, to ensure that those who do not worship at the altar of open borders capitalism are attacked until they do submit.

Palestine has been crushed, with the majority of the population forced into exile, the remaining trapped people forced to live in conditions which make it appropriate to refer to the Gaza Strip as the world's largest concentration camp. 

Those who have resisted the imposition of a Rothschild central bank (the laundering operation for the theft of wealth from the people of every nation where one exists) have been sanctioned, had their legitimate governments changed by fake revolutions, been bombed, or a combination of the above.  The list of countries destroyed in order to bring their economies into the global capitalist stranglehold include Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, the Sudan, Libya, Syria, Cuba, Korea, Venezuela, Bolivia amongst many, many others. There are only a small number of free nations left in the world, all of them under attack.

When Corbyn was a back bencher with principles, he stood by Palestine, he opposed the EU, he campaigned against the military machine of the Zionist cult (NATO).  Since he became leader of his party, he has turned 180 degrees on the EU unbelievably supporting membership of that capitalist organisation, he has gone silent on the North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation, so it would come as no surprise if the man who used to have strong and socialist beliefs but has abandoned all of them in his lust for the position of Prime Minister, should see his next volte face come in the form of a trip to the occupation state to pay fealty to the Zionist regime.  Corbyn used to be a man we could respect, but with each capitulation he becomes ever more indistinguishable from the rest of the pampered parasites in parliament.  We would love to have Corbyn prove us wrong by taking a firm stand against Zionism.  He could make a bold statement by outright refusing to join the pilgrimage to the holy site of the Zionist death cult, and by declaring g that a Labour government would recognise the State of Palestine and declare illegal the brutal apartheid regime in Tel Aviv.  We won't hold our breaths.

As Ismail Patel correctly stated in 2008, Zionism has a devastating effect - on everyone.

Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 88

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"We must distinguish the true nationalism that demands to love the nation and defend its interests, from democratic nationalism that defends the interests of the bourgeoisie. In relations with other countries and nations, this manifests itself as egoism or national exclusive role or chauvinism of great power. It is an ideology of a reactionary nature that sows antagonism and disagreement between countries and prevents the development of friendly relations between the peoples of the earth." (Kim Jong Il)

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Maybe not everyone knows that:

The Assad family belongs to the alawites.

The most tolerant part of Islam.

Syrian women have the same rights as men in health and education.

In Syria women are not obliged to wear burqa. Sharia (Islamic law) is unconstitutional.

Syria is the only arab country with a secular Constitution and does not tolerate Islamic extremist movements.

About 10 % of the Syrian population belongs to one of the many Christian names present both in political and social life.

This religious tolerance is unique in the area.

In other Arab countries the Christian population is less than 1 % due to sustained hostility.

Syria is the only country in the Mediterranean that remains the owner of its oil company, who asked not to privatise.

Syria has an opening to western society and culture like no other arab country.

Throughout history there were five Popes of Syrian origin.

Before the civil war it was the only quiet area without wars or internal conflicts.

Syria is the only arab country without debts with the international monetary fund.

Syria is the only country that admitted Iraqi refugees without any social, political or religious discrimination.

Bashar Al-Assad has a high popular consensus.

Did you know that Syria has an oil reserve of 2.500 million barrels, whose functioning is reserved for State-owned companies?

Do you need any other explanation?

___________ Mario Rossi __________

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Hong Kong is destroying itself as an important financial centre and tourist attraction, but the 'protesters', which have recently seen a pro Beijing resident set on fire, a young woman tortured, and this latest attack on a seventy year old man, have now crossed the line. They are nothing to do with 'human rights' or 'democracy' (there wasn't an election in one hundred and fifty years of British rule) and everything to do with trying to divide Hong King from the mainland by terrorising people for doing nothing more than speaking Mandarin, the national language of the Chinese nation. All in the service of American Imperialism. The Chinese government wish all Chinese people to speak Mandarin as part of their drive to unify the nation, but no one is being prevented from speaking Cantonese in addition, or or any of the other ethnically diverse languages and dialects of the People's Republic. These acts are mothing but pure thuggery, and there are signs that the remarkably restrained government of China are losing patience and will soon be forced to take resolute action.

- Tony Green

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The bourgeoisie, properly speaking, has no social idea; the bourgeois social regime is anarchy pure and simple; there’s no longer any city; the social character of acts no longer appears; no superior principle or ideal draws individuals beyond their selfish vision. The social idea can only don two forms: it is military or labor; it cannot be bourgeois.

 - Édouard Berth

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Democracy is a sham. We need the dictatorship of the proletariat

For those who haven't managed to escape the howling propaganda of the mass media, it will come as no surprise that - yet again - it is election time in the UK.  We were told only a few years ago, that in order to make the country more democratic, power would be taken away from parliament with regards to calling elections, and we would henceforth in perpetuity have fixed elections which would be rolled out according to the calendar rather than the whims of politicians.  Like everything else which comes from Westminster, this was pure deceit.  Since the fixed terms were introduced, the UK has been subjected to changes in Prime Ministers and General Elections which would make a banana republic blush.

So, next month the people get the chance to waste their votes on a pointless exercise which will see the establishment returned to power with a few face changes to be sure, but with no change to the grip of the globalist ruling class and the bourgeoisie which live on it - appropriately - in the manner of a parasite suckling a festering cadaver.

The UK General Election comes shortly after the shopping festival of Black Friday, but with the promises of freebies to bribe the voter into placing his or her cross in the desired box, it may as well be on the same day.

Corbyn the champagne social democrat has promised to renationalise British Telecom and give the people free broadband.  Johnson the Tory toff has promised to reopen the railway networked hacked away by Dr Beeching in the 1960s.  Interestingly, the voters are equally keen on both policies, yet opposed to taxes being raised to pay for them - like greedy Black Friday shoppers, they are excited by  the dangled carrot of stuff for free (well, cheapish) and not interested in the hidden cost (tax hikes, cuts in the workforce to offset the alleged discounts).

The Socialist Motherland Party takes a stand against national elections which are consumer farces.  We don't believe that their can be democracy within the capitalist system.  As long as rival factions within the same corporate globalist machine are fighting in the rigged party system game, the only victor is the man who owns the game - and that isn't, nor will it ever be, the Working Class!

Nigel Farage was chosen as the frontman for a campaign to keep the UK forever in the EU.  His UKIP campaign was supposed to lead to a victory for the pro-EU globalist fanatics, but to the horror of the establishment, decades of liberal indoctrination masquerading  as education failed to break the spirit of the proletariat.  The bourgeois parasites naturally voted for the EU, just as they can be guaranteed to support all forms of decadence and degeneracy, but the Working Class was not cowed by the lies and bribes of the party system.  Farage has now continued to undermine his mock rebellion by forming a pact of sorts with the Eurocentric Tories to ensure the Brexit In Name Only tactic of Theresa Mayand Boris Johnson (or rather, their paymasters) is enshrined in law and the UK is kept inside the EU empire in every way that it already is.  Of course the lunatic Liberal Democrats and the anti-English separatists who support them in their 'remain alliance' offer an alternative whereby the farce of leaving the EU in name only is avoided by staying!

Yes, roll up, roll up, it's nearly time to put a cross on a bit of paper and to have your wishes respected just as they have been since 23:06:16 when we democratically left the EU but the politicians simply ignored us and kept us in.  So, the question boils down to, do you want a new iPhone or Smart TV at a reduced price which is still outrageously high and will in any case be recouped by the companies in ways which take more money from your pocket.  Or maybe you want free Broadband, perhaps a slight extension to the Railway network, at the cost of your taxes going ever higher, meaning the official gains are really losses.

The Socialist Motherland Party is sick of the social democrat posturing of Labour, the barefaced lies of the Tories, the insanity of the Liberals and separatists.  We say enough of the fake democracy.  We call for a Socialist state run by the proletariat, for the proletariat.  Under a dictatorship of the proletariat we would have no futile divisive elections, but genuine decision making by the people in the workplace and the community.  With the capitalist nightmare wiped away, we would for the first time ever have actual democracy.  Democracy and Capitalism are incompatible. We would abolish the nonsense of representatives democracy and bring in total control by the proletariat through Workers' Cooperatives, Workers' Syndicates and Popular Committees in every street in every city and every village.

We demand nothing less than Revolution. The old system is rotten to the core. It has to be destroyed and confined to a subject in the teaching of the historical tyranny of globalist greed. Only the Socialist Motherland Party speaks of the futility of the system. Join us and fight to create a new way where we - the entire Proletariat - are the only power in the nation, and where divisive pantomime elections are a thing of the past.

Socialist Quotes for Snday Reflection pt 87

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(Not that we endorse the social democrat trots, but a fair point nonetheless)

We're told leaving the EU will cost jobs –The Impact analysis on joining the European project were all wrong. Joining turned out to be a disaster.

 The Labour Party's Tony Benn, explaining how it turned a trade surplus with the bloc into a deficit and destroyed 500,000 jobs.
The UK have run a deficit with the EU ever since the Tories took us into the EEC/EU

The Bankers love the EU.That's why they fight so hard for remain. Its all services.

The share of UK exports accounted for by the EU has generally fallen over time from 55% in 2006 to 44% in 2016, though this increased slightly to 45% in 2018.

The share of UK imports accounted for by the EU fell from 58% in 2002 to 51% in 2010, though this has now been at 53% since 2014.

The UK had an overall trade deficit of -£66 billion with the EU in 2018. A surplus of £28 billion on trade in services was outweighed by a deficit of -£94 billion on trade in goods.

The UK had a trade surplus of £29 billion with non-EU countries. A surplus of £77 billion on trade in services outweighed a deficit of -£48 billion on trade in goods.

Services accounted for 41% of the UK’s exports to the EU in 2018. Financial services and other business services (a category which includes legal, accounting, advertising, research and development, architectural, engineering and other professional and technical services) are important categories of services exports to the EU – in 2018 these two service categories made up just over half of of UK service exports to the EU.

The EU is not a democracy. When Jeremy Corbyn voted against the Maastricht treaty in 1993, he declared it was because the EU had handed control to “an unelected set of bankers”. More recently the Labour leader has said the EU has “always suffered from a serious democratic deficit”.

 #Brexit Lexit - the Left Leave Campaign
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Interesting to read what I wrote about the forthcoming EU vote a month or so before it happened. I still stand by every word two and a half years later.

"For me it's not about economics at all, it's about do we want to see the survival of distinctive national and local communities, or do we wish to live in a globalised, corporate world where nobody really belongs anywhere and rooted citizenship is consigned to history. I'll never understand why 'socialists' and 'communists' support the latter, as without real communities of people with a shared history and culture the system they/I fight for becomes impossible. I'm all for fraternal, fair trade and the exchange of labour and skills between independent nations, but that is not what the EU is about at all. It is about the domination of big business and the destruction of resistance to that domination through the physical destruction of community, both as an idea and as a physical entity. Vote LEAVE on June 23."

 - Tony Green

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Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 86

The Tories under Johnson are selling out the Leave vote no less than Labour would. Johnson's Brexit "deal" is little more than May's surrender treaty with lipstick on.

The only party that is currently in the pubic consciousness right now that is advocating a WTO Brexit, where we start from a position of total return of sovereignty, is the Brexit party.

However, Johnson's administration has made it clear, today, that no pact will be formed with the Brexit party in the election. This, in turn, could lead to the leave voted being split. But, not in terms of allowing both Brexit party and Tory party MPs to go to Westminster. Rather, in terms of stopping either of them getting a constituency majority and so allowing a Labour or Lib Dem candidate to win. In turn, allowing a Labour/SNP/Lib Dem coalition to assume power even though they may actually have less than 50% of the popular vote countrywide.

If the above comes to pass and this country does not get its sovereignty returned., I predict troops being used on the streets of this nation to keep the peace within a decade.

In other words, I predict bloodshed.

- Stephen Cook

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Modern intellectualist democracy, as our Sorbonne embodies with its Cartesian and encyclopedist rationalism, is, as Proudhon saw, a “disguised aristocracy”, and, I repeat it, the harshest, the most harmful, the most ruinous of aristocracies; because it is the Pedantocracy and the Mandarinhood of people unsuited for both war and labor and whose reign can only result in the ruin of both the fatherland and production.

Édouard Berth, Les Méfaits des intellectuels (1914)

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“One of the key moments in the creation of modernity occurs when production moves outside the household. So long as productive work occurs within the structure of households, it is easy and right to understand that work as part of the sustaining of the community of the household and of those wider forms of community which the household in turn sustains. As, and to the extent that, work moves outside the household and is put to the service of impersonal capital, the realm of work tends to become separated from everything but the service of biological survival and the reproduction of the labor force, on the one hand, and that of institutionalized acquisitiveness, on the other. Pleonexia (ruthless self-seeking and an arrogant assumption that others and things exist for one's own benefit a vice), is now the driving force of modern productive work.”

~Alasdair MacIntyre

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“The destruction of family ties ‎is one of the filthy goals of the Zionist regime to destroy the identity of humankind, such as ‎that which they have achieved in the West.” ‎

Hujjat al-Islam Alireza Panahian, ‎custodian of Tehran’s Dar al-Hikmah Seminary

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