An Australian Perspective

 

FIVE STEPS TO ADDRESSING AUSTRALIA’S HOUSING CRISIS.

1. Amend negative gearing laws to only allow tax deductibility for the interest component of mortgage repayments made on owner occupied properties. 

Remove this concession for investment properties.

2. Cap net overseas migration to the number of people who permanently left Australia in the previous year.

The quickest way to cool demand for housing

3. Provide subsidies for regional development to encourage employment and housing projects outside major metropolitan areas.

Build new communities where land is plentiful.

4. Take back the power to create new money. New money is created each time a commercial bank makes a new loan. 

The associated profit - or seigniorage - rightfully belongs to the Australian people, not foreign investors.

5. Actively support the establishment of interest free loans for owner occupied housing, using the JAK Bank funding model as a framework.

https://www.socioeco.org/bdf_fiche-document-4014_en.html

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Editors note:

The 'Australian Perspective' is as applicable to the British Isles as it is to Australia.

The globalist drive to total urbanisation has to be stopped. The WEF and the Climate Alarmists are implementing 15 minute cities as a way of getting people used to living in compact neighbourhoods. The next step is to centralise the population in mega-cities, rewilding the countryside and making rural living something for the ruling class only.

The Socialist Motherland Party position is that urban living is anti-human, harmful to mind and body, and that a return to the land is vital to heal our people. 

Breaking up the cities and transferring people to areas where there is more than enough space to live in harmony with nature, is the true environmentally sound path.

Thank you to Nine of Clubs - the voice of Paleo-Socialism in Australia - for this timely post, which shows that solutions to the problems caused by unipolar globalism can be found in multipolar internationalism.

Socialist Homes, not Capitalist Accommodation

Capitalism is a creed (yes, creed!) which makes the pursuit of money all that is acceptable.  People and other living beings are only considered with regards to their worth as a part of the economic system.  The fullest expression of the lack of concern for the welfare of the people can be seen in the accommodation which the people who create the wealth have to deal with, and the contrasting living conditions of the Ruling Class and the celebrities who gain wealth by serving as propagandists for them.

We are forced to live in ever smaller flats and houses, in ever larger towns and cities.  We now live in conditions which previous generations would have been shocked by.  Cities exist for the benefit of the economic system, keeping the wage slaves in close proximity to the consumer goods which they have to purchase in order to keep the Ruling Class rich.  We wage slaves are often forced to travel vast distances to the places of their servitude, damaging our health and eroding our time away from our places of employment.  The capitalists only care about their profits and ability to hold on to power.  Our well being doesn't factor into their system of thought except with regards to keeping us distracted by their controlled entertainment system or when that fails, beaten down by their legal system.

Architects in the 1960s designed high rise blocks of flats which they referred to as vertical streets.  The idea was that they were simply streets turned on their side and made to travel upwards instead of along.  These vertical streets had no gardens, even though it would have been perfectly easy to have had each floor extended outwards to provide the residents with a small garden or yard space.  The failure to include access to nature reflected the belief of the people who commissioned the architects that the Working Class do not need gardens.  Older streets in industrial towns long ago dispensed with any connection to nature, with the fictional Coronation Street of the television being modelled on them.  Since the time of the Industrial Revolution we have been herded into accommodation which is unfit to live in.  We are treated like battery hens by the Ruling Class who see us as less than human.

To walk through any town or city is to see squalor.  A natural result of forcing people into housing which is no more than a space to sleep and to recover after a period of work (or to shelter in the absence of work) is to create a loathing of the surroundings.  Cities are places of high crime, vandalism, littering and anti-socialism (collectivised yet perversely individualistic anti-Socialist behaviour) because they are places in which humanity is a side issue.  People are a part of nature but cities are apart from nature.  Breaking the links which keep us safely anchored in the natural order can only lead to behaviour which is against the natural order.

SMPBI is agrarian in foundation.  By this we aim to hand back control of the basics of food and shelter to everybody.  But that doesn't mean that we are Pol Potists!  This point has to be clarified right now.  Our Agrarian Socialism has absolutely nothing to do with the murderous barbarianism of Pol Pot. Pol Pot was a Capitalist stooge who destroyed Cambodia in order to incorporate the nation into the US-dominated Global Capitalist menace.  His fake agrarianism has been highlighted as 'proof' that Socialism does not work.  An interesting piece on how Pol Pot was a Capitalist tool, can be found at this link: https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html

Our vision of a coming Socialist Republic is one in which the cities are divided into small self-sufficient towns.  That would allow for the development of local culture within the national framework.  The Urban Working Class has become disconnected from nature.  This is a logical result of years of forcing people away from the country and in to the cities.  This began with the Enclosures Acts right back in Tudor times, but especially the Enclosures Consolidation Act of 1801. 

The Land Belongs to the People and the People Belong to the Land.

SMPBI will break up the cities, end rabbit hutch housing conditions, and in its place we will live in homes which are fit to live in, with land which reunites us with nature.  The landed gentry and the rich have homes which are conducive to good physical and mental health, but we have to live in conditions which they would never submit to.  Socialism isn't about reducing everyone to the lowest level, but of gaining the best for everyone.  The only people who benefit from city-living are the landlords who extract money from their tenants, especially those who charge ground rent and get money for literally nothing.  Council Tax isn't that different to Ground Rent, and we would abolish that too.

The Working Class have paid with our labour for all the wealth of the Ruling Class and their Middle Class agents.  We want nothing less than that wealth and the living conditions they enjoy, for ourselves.  They can hand over what they are stolen, or we will take it.  But have it, we will.

Family as the Socialist Foundation

Family is the fundamental building block of society. A real family consisting of a Husband, Wife and Child (or Children) provides a barrier against the intrigues of the State. Fidelity is the keystone of the family. In order for the Establishment to destroy all opposition to its machinations, Family must be destroyed.

The natural role for a man is to protect his wife and offspring. The natural role of a woman is to look after her husband and any children. The media have pushed the lie that adultery is OK, in order to weaken the bonds between man and wife. Women and Men who seek sexual gratification outside the family are enemies of society.

Hugh Hefner introduced Playboy in the 50's. While most women were still trying to full fill their traditional roles, this toxic magazine had men wanting the whore, linking as a way to to their own sucess to have a tart instead of wife (or in some cases both - Mad Men) Unless we men and women find common ground instead of finger pointing, we will never defeat the "powers that be". Women are jealous of other women, if we see one getting all the attention we want to be her. So shame on the men for elevating the whore to her status and leaving real women who refuse to plastic themselves up in the lurch.

Women have been especially targeted by the Establishment. The media teaches that women are merely objects and that every concern should be material. Whether it is buying clothes which fit a prepared stereotype (trendy, Goth or other), or spending hours studying make-up and 'perfecting' a certain look, women have become victims of a system which reduces us to consumers and to little more than showroom dummies. Men are not immune from this. The trans madness is mainly men who are obsessed with what they look like (or what they think that they are supposed to think they should look like!)

Girls are conditioned to emulate pop stars, who are nothing more than glorified prostitutes. Modern pop music (whether R&B, Goth or whatever) is built upon the use of repetitive lyrics which act as a form of mind control. Lyrics which speak of sexual promiscuity implant in the mind of the listener the acceptance of promiscuity. Lyrics which speak of hatred of men and of the desirability of self-harm, condition the listener to self hatred and hatred of others. These sick distortions of normality push the listener into a position of confusion and split identity. It is from such evil that schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder take root. Whether the medium used to break the spirit and mind of the individual is in musical form or in visual form, the result is an undeniable destruction of the self.

By implanting a diseased outlook in the minds of men and women, and undermining the traditional roles of both sexes, the Establishment has lain the seeds for the crushing of the family. By creating the conditions in which friction becomes inevitable, the door is open to further State interference for the breaking of the family. It is at this point that the Establishments role in destroying the Family takes a lead overt role - in steps Social Services, the Family Courts and all the other atomising institutions.

Men and women need to unite and fight this assault on the natural masculine man and feminine woman. The only solution to our sick society is a return to traditional Socialism, to the sanctity of marriage, and to the overthrowal of so called Social Services. Adultery is not a right, but a disease created by the Establishment, and for this evil the Establishment must pay the ultimate price.

There is a tendancy to whitewash the likes of Hefner and the types of men who happily go after the whore archetype. Men like this need to be exposed, and their anti-female attitude addressed. People yearn for a society where men are men, women are women, family is the highest achievement, and the peddlars of pornography, adultery and materialism are physically eliminated for all time.

This is why more and more turn to Islam. To return to morality and work. Islam is not a solution which is suitable for a Free Socialist Republic of the British Isles.  We have suffered under the yoke of Bible cults for so long, that we are susceptible to another Bible spin-off.  Traditional Socialism harks back to the days of nature-based spiritualism, and does not need a hierarchy of Ruing Class appointed clergy to act as links between the physical and the spiritual.  A return to a natural order IS a return to a way of life where we are self-sufficient in all matters, and where we reject priestcraft.

Trans-fascism is the next step in the break down of family.  It denies nature.  It denies the unity of men and women and the foundation of society.  It attacks homosexuality with the lie that Lesbians and Gays are really 'trapped in the wrong body' and can be 'cured' by radical surgery.  The T attached to LGB is an abhorence.

A return to sanity cannot occur within a Capitalist framework.  As Revolutionary Patriotic Socialists, we affirm that individualism is a major problem, and that the damage of this selfish mentality will take a massive amount of deprogramming.  We are aware of the brain-washing of the pornographers, the 'gender' dictators, the psychological warfare against the family structure.  This will require a Socialist System which rejects the divisiveness of feminism and masculism, putting focus instead on mutualism and the need for everyone to work together for what is best for all of us.  We reject liberal decay. Working Class Socialism is for Family, Tradition, and Biological Reality.  Liberal individualism has brought us to the brink, and we will not tolerate it, nor those who push it and profit by it.

Gender Politics is an assault on Sanity

Gender Politics is a form of madness which is being pushed on society by people who understand that attacking common sense, nature and the most basic of scientific facts, is a way of attacking the very fabric of society.  Placing feelings above facts, fiction above facts, opinions above facts, is an attack on reality. This assault is another way of breaking down society and atomising individuals.  People who have no connection with society cannot defend that society. A society which is incapable and unwilling to defend itself, is easy prey to the machinations of the tyrants of commerce.  Just as National Borders protect us from hostile forces, so a sense of belonging, is a defence.

The Tory government in 1962 began to call for an end to Mental Asylums, with the Minister of Health, Enoch Powell, spearheading the propaganda against them. In the 1980s, the Tory Government under Thatcher, began closing down the last of the Lunatic Asylums, pushing the mentally ill into society.  The dogma of 'Care in the Community' was motivated by cost cutting, and it was an instant failure. Today, seriously mentally ill people are living amongst us, and the walls which separated the sick from the well are no longer there to keep us apart.

The walls of the Asylums allowed the mentally ill to live their lives in the fantasies of their creations, free from ridicule and fear.  For those outside the Asylums, the same was true, with well people left to live their lives free from fear and free from the disturbing impact of people who were a danger to themselves and/or others.  If a man wanted to pretend to be a woman, he could do so in his cosy hospital setting - interacting with others who had similar delusions. For the rest of us, the delusions of the sick were not a problem, because the deluded were looked after where their fantasies did not conflict with reality.

The Tories began the rot, and now the Social Justice Warriors have taken the baton of cruelty and are using the mentally ill to push their individualistic agenda.  From the right, society is under attack because it is an obstacle to global open borders business.  From the trotskyite left, it is under attack because it is an obstacle to the nonsense of a one world anarchic hippy utopia.  The Middle Class parasites of every political opinion are doing all they can to normalise mental illness.  It is up to the Working Class to stop this abuse of the mentally ill, and to bring back the sanctuaries for the insane.

The decline of Britain at the hands of globalisers and liberal fantasists can be highlighted by the fact that a seriously mentally ill woman, Christie Elan Cane, has taken her delusion through the court system in an attempt to have passports changed so that there are three options to place when asked what sex you are!  With the exception of a very small number of hermaphrodites, there are only two sexes - Male and Female.  If a man wants to wear a frock, then so be it, but it doesn't make him a woman.  If a woman wants to dress in a way which she considers masculine, then that is her choice, but it doesn't make her a man.

Christie Elan-Cane (note the pretentious bourgeois double-barrelled surname) made the following video, which anyone with a grip on reality can clearly see is the rantings of someone in need of help:

Cane suffers from serious delusions. In her 20s, she had a double mastectomy, which she considered doing to herself when reputable surgeons were not happy to assist in this act of gross self-harm. (A surgeon with a weaker moral view, and a lust for money performed the operation for a hefty profit.) She later underwent a hysterectomy.  These are not the actions of a sane individual.  In a Society in which the sick are cared for, Cane would have been admitted to hospital where she could live her fantasies in every way except mutilation.

Cane has the support of Liberal Party MPs, and has wasted a vast amount of tax-payers money in the court cases she has fought to impose her delusions on the rest of us. She hasn't accepted that she is delusional, and will continue her campaign to have her madness classified as fact, until a liberal SJW judge concurs.

Socialism is about looking after the people.  Without National Borders, there is nothing to stop harmful outside influences wrecking the lives of the Working Class.  Without the walls of Mental Hospitals, there is nothing to stop the destructive obsessions of the insane from polluting the society of the normal.

SMPBI pities Cane. She needs help.  In a Socialist Republic, she would be given the best of Mental Health treatment in a secure Mental Hospital.  We respect nature, and we respect the right of those who need help, to be given the best care available.  It is the greedy middle class Tory parasites who created this mess, and the self-important middle class SJW scum who have made a bad situation worse.  To protect the Working Class, we need to smash the Middle Class and end their ridiculous and dangerous identity politics.  Today it is Cane who is calling for legal documents to have three genders. If this isn't stopped, tomorrow the education system and media will use this nonsense to attack our children, encouraging more people to undergo mutilation in the pursuit of changing reality to suit their feelings: Feelings created for them by the liberal globalist media.

Family is the Foundation Stone of Socialism

In an age of liberal egocentrism, with the traditional family structure under attack from every perceivable angle, a practical application of Working Class Solidarity has to begin with the solidarity of the family.  Speaking by telephone is no substitute for real face-to-face contact.  Being aware of the forces behind the drive into selfishness, decadence and societal atomisation, is a futile exercise if we do not ensure that we fight those forces in our everyday lives.  Re-connecting with loved ones helps to provide a much-needed boost to the vital determination to fight our enemies and restore the nation to its natural path.

The globalists despise everything which roots the people in reality.  Family is the key target for those who would create an atomised world of self-isolating, cultureless, materialistic producer-consumers.  Family is especially targeted because it is the hearth in which we are formed.

Liberal education exists to break children from the family.  Promiscuity, divorce, abortion, adultery, in place of marriage and children raised in two parent homes; all these factors are aimed at destroying the stability a child needs in order to grow and become a rounded individual, fully connected to the natural organic society. 

Home-schooling threatens the power of the Establishment to brainwash children into supporting it.  A moral family with values and decency is a bulwark against the libertine poison of the globalist commodity order.  A family which fails to shield its younger members from the lies of the media is a collaborator in the mental destruction of our youth. 

It is good to maintain personal contact with friends and family.  The inappropriately named 'social media networks' undermine real contact, and perhaps exist partly for that reason.  Spending positive quality time with family, without the distraction of television, energises and revitalises. 

The line in the sand must be the refusal to let anyone harm our class: our kin.  Let us ensure that this isn't a mantra but a way of life.  We must take time to see loved ones and to look after and nurture our own.  The traditional and real Family is under attack by the liberal establishment because they understand how strong we are when we keep their influence at bay.

Let us take the struggle from the remote sphere of the internet into the real world and defend what cannot be allowed to fall.  Family must be our focus.  The Line in the Sand doesn't have to be the last line of defence; rather it can be the advance line of attack.  Let us take the battle to the enemy and strengthen our bonds so they cannot destroy our future.

The trots who have infested the Socialist Movement with their degenerate revisionist bile, are partners with the capitalists in their campaign to wreck the family. The far-right with their obsession with Islam, are useful idiots, campaigning to undermine the family in Muslim communities, just as family has been undermined in traditional British communities.  The bigotry of the latter is easier to dismiss than the stupidity of the former, because the trots hide behind the label Socialist.  We have to reclaim the sanctity of Family, and to do so in our own lives by defending and strengthening our own family bonds.  Family and Comradeship are the bulwark against Capitalism.  Just as we have to keep our National Borders secure, we cannot let our enemies undermine the boundaries which keep hearth and home safe.

On the Innately Capitalist Character of Modern Technology and its ‘Science’ - Wilberg on Wednesday

Why did the rise of modern science and technology go hand in hand with the rise of capitalism?
Why did modern science technology ‘take off’ with capitalism and vice versa?

One basic and obvious Marxist answer is that it was new production technologies (from the steam engine to electricity) that first made capitalist forms of mass production in industry possible - and with them capitalist relations of production.

On a deeper level however, I see a connection between the particular character of modern science and technology and the rise and development of capitalism. In particular, what is notable is that in no earlier, pre-capitalist understandings and uses of nature is there anything remotely resembling the ruling conceptions of modern science - in particular the concept of energy that came to dominate both modern scientific discourse and ‘New Age’ pseudoscience (‘energy medicine’ etc.)

      As I have mentioned in several of my books, including The Science Delusion, in his essay entitled ‘Power vs Energy - The Difference Between Dynamis and Energeia’, Johnathon Tennenbaum shows clearly the geo-political use that the ‘energy’ concept was first promoted to serve:

“… the ‘Energeticist Movement’ associated with Wilhelm Ostwald around the turn of the 19th century advocated a World Government based on the use of ‘energy’ as the universal, unifying concept not only for all of physical science, but also for economics, psychology, sociology and the arts … Not accidentally, the Kelvin-Helmholtz doctrine of ‘energy’ became a key feature of Anglo-American geopolitics, from the British launching of Middle East ‘oil politics’ at the beginning of the 20th century … to a new Middle East war.” 

Even here however, I believe we are still only touching the geopolitical surface of the question. A deeper connection between capitalism and the concept of ‘energy’ can be found in Marx’s concept of exchange value as an intangible “universal equivalent” relating all commodities - one that has its source in what he called “abstract labour”.

Marx argued that abstract labour - labour stripped of all its concrete, tangible human forms - is the sole true source of economic value in capitalism. Yet the idea of abstract labour is, by definition, an abstraction - a pure ideality - albeit one that has become realised  or made manifest in the economic life of capitalism. The Hegelian idea of ‘real abstractions’ - abstractions that take on an actual life of their own in society - can also be applied to modern science. This applies particularly to the abstract concept of ‘energy’ - which also has the character of a ‘universal equivalent’ - since it is seen not only as that which universally equates and relates all natural phenomena, but also as something more fundamentally ‘real’ than all its concrete and sensuous manifestations - for example as heat, light, electricity, magnetism etc., all which are no longer experienced as having any independent soul.

But the rabbit hole linking science and capitalism goes deeper still. For as well as having its linguistic roots in the Greek word for ‘work’, the term  ‘energy’ is still defined today as ‘the capacity to perform work’ - exactly the same definition that Marx gives to human labour power.  I argue therefore that a principal role played by the concept of energy - in what can well be called capitalist science - is to facilitate a view of nature too, as something that can be made to perform work, i.e. to be quite literally ‘put to work’, ‘set to work’ or ‘pressed into work’ in just the same way as human labour is within the capitalist system (as well as being exploited in the same way as human labour power).

So just as one can talk, in Marxist terms, of wage-slavery and the exploitation of labour, so one can also talk of enslaving and exploiting nature - by setting or pressing it to work through the technologies of capitalism. Similarly, just as, according to Marx, the abstraction called ‘value’ necessarily circulates in a number of different economic spheres of economic activity  - production capital, commodity capital and money capital etc. so also is ‘energy’ (and now also ‘information’) seen as circulating throughout its many concrete forms of manifestation in nature.

What also unites ‘energy’, ‘abstract labour’ and economic ‘value’ is, of course, that they are purely quantitative abstractions - and that their ‘working’ (Greek energeia) is essentially heedless and even destructive of all their sensuous, qualitative forms - for example by undermining the concrete, sensuous labour of the artisan or through the despoliation of the earth.  The notion that what is ‘real’ is only that which is quantitatively measurable has a long history going back to Galileo, but it found its most developed expression in the philosopher of capitalism par excellence - John Locke. For it was he who reduced all immediate sensuous qualities dimensions of human experience to a mere by-product of measurable quantities such as mass, motion etc.

Marx saw also how the human activity of pressing nature into work through production technologies went along with the pressing of human beings into work as mere servants or “appendages” of these technologies.

“All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.”

Here we see a convergence of Marxist and Heideggerian thinking on the question of modern technology and its ‘sciences’ - which, as Heidegger points out, are themselves already based on the use of technical apparatus. Heidegger also emphasised strongly how science and technology force nature to reveal itself (theoretically and in practice) solely according to modern scientific preconceptions. In doing so however, nature does not actually reveal its essential nature or ‘truth’ to humanity, but rather is forced to conceal its essential truth or  innermost soul - like a slave being ordered to mutely obey its master’s commands - or a victim of torture being forced to ‘confess’ under interrogation something which has nothing to do with truth at all - a truth which remains all the more hidden and concealed the more successful the torturer is in forcing a confession of falsities.

Besides speaking, as Marx did, of commodity-fetishism, I think there are good grounds for speaking also of the techno-fetishism of modern capitalism. It was this techno-fetishism, along with the concept and geopolitics of ‘energy’ - that first led Heidegger to see technology as turning the planet into nothing but “a giant gasoline station”. It is the same fetishism of technology that sees it as holding the answers to all the world’s problems - but without so much as asking (as both Marx and Heidegger did) what the deepest questions are that lie behind these problems. 

The biggest question has to do with capitalism itself, and in particular its innate need for the infinite self-expansion of abstract economic ‘value’ - at the expense of all authentic human values. That is why, as the globalisation of capitalism across the planet advances to its ultimate limits, capitalism now seeks to use technologies of space-travel to the moon and other planets as offering  new, trans-terrestrial sources of value exploitation and expansion to save itself from collapse. Yet the in-built necessity for the growth and self-expansion of economic value is never questioned - instead it is just meekly accepted as a ‘law of nature’ that corporations have to record an expansion in their sales and profits.

At the beginning of this essay I mentioned that the ruling concepts of modern science and technology had no place in pre-capitalist cultures and civilisations. And yet what monumental ‘technological’ wonders did they accomplish, achievements which were not measured by their exchange value or even by their use-value alone - but also by their beauty (such as the beautiful Indian temple complexes carved entirely out of and within a single rock face). Today we content ourselves with megacities characterised by totally soulless steel and glass skyscrapers - and all our technologies together seem incapable of creating anything of authentic beauty - anything with soul.  It is also standard for the monumental megalithic works of earlier civilisations - such as the the pyramids of Egypt and South America to been seen simple as a work of hordes of slaves. Yet how can this be, since even today there is still no existing human technology that can come even close to achieving the precision of cutting and drilling of granite that we see in many of the temples, tunnels and dug out rock chambers of early Mesoamerican and Egyptian - to mention but two. So instead of speaking of concrete and ‘concrete labour’ we might better speak of ‘granite labour’ and of granite - which seems to have been cut, drilled, shaped and sculpted to impossible perfection in the past - as if it was butter and not one of the hardest of rocks.

From this and many other forms of evidence available I believe we can come to no other conclusion than that many of the monumental works of prehistoric civilisations were indeed the work of those ‘gods’ which so many ancient myths report as coming down from ‘the skies’ or ‘heaven’, i.e. advanced extra-terrestrial species of consciousness who were understandably worshipped as ‘god-kings’ - and which seeded all great historic civilisations. True, these god-kings, as a ruling elite, were given a portion of the surplus created by the otherwise free productive activity of their peoples (what Marx called ‘The Asiatic Mode of Production’). But the people in turn got something back from their ‘god-kings’ in the form of practical use values of immense importance such as irrigation systems of the most sophisticated sort. For as elites they were, at least at the start and for a time, true cognitive elites - until they degenerated into decadent royal dynasties or ruling class parasites resting their authority on ‘the divine right of kings’.

Looking back into prehistory then, it is as if, through its techno-fetishism, today’s global capitalism is, in effect, attempting to catch up with what was once a global network of prehistoric civilisations sharing technologies far more advanced than our own. What these ancient peoples knew, we have long forgotten - so blinded have we become by the products of our current science and technology, all of which are commodities produced to feed the endless spiral of value creation, and not created as use values to serve human material and spiritual needs. True, the peoples of  prehistoric global civilisations did not have gadgets like cars, televisions, smartphones or drones. On the other hand, it is likely they had no need of them - for human consciousness itself still had highly developed capacities of distance vision, and a level of empathic-telepathic resonance with others of a sort that made any need for ‘messaging’ redundant. There is ample evidence also that is was not ‘energy’ but sonic resonance - realised through music, tuned chanting and singing - and amplified by natural piezoelectric materials - that was the essential ‘scientific’ principle of those prehistoric and pre-capitalist societies and technologies, used for example, for the sonic drilling, carving and acoustic levitation of huge blocks of stone. In contrast, today’s technologies however largely substitute for or simulate what used to be natural powers of resonant human consciousness and communication - although technologies of sonic drilling are now industrially produced and applied - and the possibility of sonic levitation has been laboratory proven. (see the YouTube channel called Ancient Architects).

As for the true purpose of today’s newest, latest and most heavily funded technologies - such as AI-driven Genetics, Nanotechnology and Robotics (GNR), what will they be capable of creating for humanity? Nothing but tools for both the military-industrial complex and the medical-industrial complex, with its promise of genetically eliminating diseases which in reality are created by the alienation of labour - by capitalism itself. And what could be more obscene than use of technologies to replace human-human relations, including sexual relations, with human-robot relations. Yet already we see the development and marketing of robotic sex partners - and even robotic parenting products - ‘cute’ robots that will sing bedtime songs to children and act as their principal playmates.

Finally we have the sinister ideological phenomenon known as ‘trans-humanism’, with its intentional purpose of using GNR to technically ‘upgrade’ biological human beings to the supposedly ‘higher’ status of cyborgs and ‘spiritual machines’ through technologies of so-called ‘Artificial Intelligence’ - something which, in reality, bears no relation to conscious human ‘intelligence’ at all - let alone anything resembling human subjectivity - but takes the form only of ‘quantum computing’ and its higher capacities for pure and impersonal calculation.

The in-built dynamic of capitalism requires, as Marx saw, an endless self-expansion for its own sake of abstract economic ‘value’ - itself seen as an impersonal driving ‘energy’. This capitalist ‘law of value’, is today being realised through new technological commodities which increasingly serve no meaningful human use value at all. It also stands in stark contrast to what Marx envisaged as the free self-expansion of human human subjectivity and consciousness in a post-capitalist era.


“...it seems as if modern humanity were rushing headlong towards this goal of producing itself technologically. If humanity achieves this, it will have exploded itself, i.e. its essence qua subjectivity, into thin air, into a region where the absolutely meaningless is valued as the one and only ‘meaning’ and where preserving this value appears as the human ‘domination’ of the globe.”

Martin Heidegger




Further reading:

Heidegger, Martin The Question Concerning Technology
Wilberg, P. The Science Delusion
Wilberg, P. From New Age to a New Gnosis - towards a new gnostic spirituality
Wilberg, P. The Qualia Revolution - from quantum physics to cosmic qualia science
For a further critique of the ‘energy’ concept see my essay on Matter, Energy and General Relativity


Images thanks to Paul A Philips

Pietro's Video Recommendations: Required Viewing for all Activists

YouTube is an area which has been neglected by the SMPBI.  Comrade Pietro has taken the initiative to rectify this failure to utilise an important medium for education. Pietro's Recommendations will be added to a playlist on YouTube.  Some videos will be controversial, but not due to a desire to shock, but more to venture into areas which some people consider off-limits. We cannot build a better future if we fear to stray from our comfort zone into areas which have been declared beyond the pale by people who fear the power of uncensored education.

The first video on the list concerns Bees and how they are dying because of the exploitation of greedy capitalists who steal their honey, use unfitting hives to house them (in much the same way as our homes are unfitting for us), and do not care about the impact of environmental damage from pesticides.  This is a topic which can be seen as important in itself, for the good of the Bees, but is also important to all of us in understanding that the system of greed which is destroying Society, is destroying nature itself....

Socialism: For Family against Liberal Degeneracy

The population of the British Isles is accelerating at an unprecedented and unsustainable rate.  But this boom is largely due to a change in demographics, with the settled population lagging behind those who have come here in recent years.

Those who support the idiotic economic system of capitalism, argue that in order for our old people to get their pensions, we must have new blood, working as wage slaves and paying taxes to the hated government, who can then dole some of it out to the pensioners.  This is a key justification for mass immigration.  People are scared of being left poor in old age - so scared that they will see the future of their country and their people lost forever, in order that their own needs are satisfied.

Is the population ageing?  According to official statistics it is.  Why?  Because not enough babies are being born.  It is really pretty simple.

People who have bought into the concept of global over-population argue that it is irresponsible for us to breed (never mind that the parts of the world outside Europe are where the population is exploding, so the over-population story doesn't even apply to our countries).  They will slander any Working Class person who has more than two children, although they don't say a word about the larger families of the newer arrivals, and they wax lyrical about the 'royal' family which lives parasitically off the sweat of the Workers of the Nation.

Many of the liberal imbeciles who believe that a cut in the population of the west alone will reduce global overpopulation, have no children at all, as a way of showing us all how 'good' they are (how deluded they are).  Of course a decline in liberals is always a good thing - but sadly their domination of the education and entertainment industries ensures that more children succumb to their insanity.  The liberal mindset is such that those who refuse to have children bleat the loudest that there are not enough children to pay for their pensions!

Since the 1960s, following the legalisation of infanticide through abortion on demand, women have been encouraged to have anonymous sex as often as they can, and simply murder any children who may result and threaten their 'lifestyles'.  Men have taken advantage of this and behaved in equally despicable means, treating women as sex objects and having as much care for the results of their 'shag anything' lifestyle as a dog in the street.  The liberal capture of all but a few remaining vestiges of real feminism has seen the proclamation of promiscuity and abortion to be the right of all women - and to hell with the unborn children, who can be replaced by immigrants from countries who tend to have more humanity than to see children as a burden.

Abortion in case of rape should be mandatory - alongside execution of the rapist.  In case of medical emergency, it should be an option.  But in the event of pregnancy occurring due to failure to take the most basic of precautions, claiming that having a baby might interfere with her lifestyle should be no justification.  In a Socialist Society, children are cherished, and it would be encouraged that unwanted children should be adopted by those with the temperament, desire and ability to raise them.

Comrade Stalin introduced the most forward thinking attitude to childcare and motherhood.  In the USSR under his guidance, Motherhood was seen as a virtuous task, with financial payment afforded which recognised that being a Mother is a full time job - a career as a carer no less - and should not be hampered by money worries.  Mothers were even given medals for raising large families - and that included children they had adopted.  Many Socialist countries have treated Motherhood as sacred - Capitalist countries treat is almost as a disease, and if they could do without the next generation of wage slaves, would be happy to wipe out the Working Class entirely.

In a speech about the value of Women, Stalin stated:

'The education of the children is the honourable social duty of mothers. Motherhood and the rearing of children in the U.S.S.R. are honoured and respected. The Soviet State assigns enormous funds to aid mothers with large families and unmarried mothers: 2,500,000 mothers have been awarded the Order "Motherhood Glory" and the "Motherhood Medal". The title "Mother Heroine" has been conferred on 28,500 women.'

SMPBI would institute an Order for the Glory of Motherhood, which would free Mothers from the financial penalties of Capitalism, and would put children first - abolishing the misnamed 'care' system in which children are placed at the mercy of the State, and are often raped and beaten by those who are tasked to 'care' for them.

Changing the liberal global anti-culture to a true Sovereign Socialist Culture is very much needed.  The media and so-called education system teach children to behave as sex objects, and when they do, then criticise them for it - we need a restoration of the primacy of family and personal dignity.  A good start would be made by executing a good few of the pædophile enablers in the mass media, entertainment industry etc.

Using immigrants to pay for pensions is sickening.  It treats the immigrants like they are slaves to be used economically in much the same way as they were in the cotton fields of olden times.  Aborting children now and abstaining from having children to provide for one's old age is irresponsible and selfish; expecting immigrants to pay for one's pension when one hasn't done a thing to provide for oneself is racist!  Putting work over family is lunacy; putting self over nation is treason.

Liberals are child-murdering racist bigots.  As Socialists, we have no time for these idiots!  In a Socialist Republic, it will be normal to have children to support you in your old age.  SMPBI rejects the liberal idea that others from outside your family should provide for you when you have done nothing to help yourself.  If you do not want children, then that is of course a choice - but in a sane society, the joys of family would be seen as a virtue, and the majority would be more than happy to have the freedom to have children, returned.  The liberal mindset which demands that immigrants take up the slack for those who (for reasons of pursuit of money and 'careers') are too selfish to have their own children, is racism against the immigrants who they treat like cattle.

SMPBI demands a return to the sanity of family; protection of the innocence of childhood; financial support and recognition for the vital work of Mothers. This will only come when liberalism is banished and the capitalist ethos of work over all else, is consigned to history.

New World Order’? ‘Globalisation’? A Marxian-Heideggerian Analysis - Wilberg on Wednesday

‘New World Order’? ‘Globalisation? What, in essence, are they? A conspiracy on the part of global elites? The final stage of capitalism? The work of extraterrestrial beings or dark hidden powers lurking in other dimensions - the David Icke phantasy? According to the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, they are none of these things - and nor are they reducible merely to any type of human conspiracy to create a World Government, army, currency etc. Instead their essence is what Heidegger understood as the hidden essence of technology itself - namely a purely calculative and exploitative mode of thinking of the sort which idealises the total orderability, exploitability, surveillability, controllability, plannability, exploitability, manipulability, commodifiability, and monetisation of all things - including human beings and the earth itself.

In Heidegger’s terms, all things are, through this purely “calculative thinking”, reduced to what he called “standing reserve” (Bestand). Forests become a ‘standing reserve’ for the supply of timber, the sea becomes a standing reserve for the fishing industry, the soil a standing reserve for mechanised agriculture, the earth becomes a standing reserve for the forced extraction of minerals and energy sources, rivers become a standing reserve for hydroelectric power production etc. But in this process man too becomes ‘standing reserve’. Thus the accumulation of technology weapons is not merely a standing reserve for engagement in war - for governments, leaders and armies become, in turn, a standing reserve for the manufacturing of wars which realise the power of such weaponry. Similarly, oil and gas engineers become a standing reserve for the employment of surveying, prospecting, and resource extraction technologies such as drilling and fracking. IT workers become a standing reserve for the creation of ever more advanced forms of Artificial Intelligence. Workers in general become a standing reserve for the production, distribution and sale of technological devices to a standing reserve of consumers. Even capitalist corporations serve as a standing reserve of ‘human resources’ - and this not just for the exploitation of workers but for the unrestricted utilisation of the very technologies they employ. The transformation of human beings into ‘standing reserve’ can be nothing than what Marx saw as the inevitable creation of a globally homogeneous proletarian slave class - but one in which the human being is also reduced to a biological machine - a mere tool-making and tool-using tool of the very technological tools he uses - and in this way their slave rather than their master. In this context, the seemingly radically divergent modes of thinking of Marx and Heidegger actually converge - for Marx also recognised the decisive role of new types of tools and technological developments in generating different modes and relations production - including the capitalist mode of production itself - and all the new forms of social and economic relations that arose with it. Few Marxists, however, recognise that Marx did not associate what he called the ‘alienation’ or ‘estrangement’ of labour only with the capitalist mode of production, but with the way in which, through the very activity of labour, the product of human labour comes to appear as an object external and alien to the labourer, i.e. as an ‘alien’ or ‘foreign’ object or power.

“If the product of labor is alien to me, if it confronts me as an alien power, to whom, then, does it belong? To a being other than myself. Who is this being? The gods? To be sure, in the earliest times the principal production (for example, the building of temples, etc., in Egypt, India and Mexico) appears to be in the service of the gods, and the product belongs to the gods… Not the gods, not nature, but only man himself can be this alien power over man.

Thus, if the product of his labor, his labor objectified, is for him an alien, hostile, powerful object independent of him, then his position towards it is such that someone else is master of this object … an activity performed in the service, under the dominion, the coercion, and the yoke of another man … The relationship of the worker to labor creates the relationship to it of the capitalist (or whatever one chooses to call the master of labour). Private property is thus the product, the result, the necessary consequence, of alienated labor, of the external relation of the worker to nature and to himself.”

What Marx calls here an “external relation of the worker to nature” corresponds also with the essence of technology as Heidegger saw it - a relation to nature in which it is “challenged forth”, i.e. forced to reveal itself only in the terms that science itself constructs - and forced also to make itself available as “standing reserve” for technological exploitation. In contrast, neither windmills, wave power nor the natural seeding of the soil force nature to reveal herself and become manipulable in the way that leads to the production of GM seeds and foods, fracking, the plundering of the earth and the products of nuclear sciences and technologies.

From both a Heideggerian and a Marxist frame of reference, the distinction between capitalism on the one hand, and the command economy of Soviet-style ‘socialism’ collapses. This is because, irrespective of property relations, both relate to nature and humanity in a purely “external way” - reducing them to a standing reserve for calculative thinking and technological exploitation. Capitalist corporations of course, have always themselves been command economies. The only difference between capitalism and Soviet command economies lay (1) in the nature of the elites whose function it is to act as a dominant and coercive “master of labour”(Marx), and (2) the nature of the cultures and ideologies who maintain the illusion that technology is something that man has complete mastery over. The great paradox of the USSR was that an expanded and enslaved ‘proletariat’ became a mere standing reserve of forced labour to enable a rapid technological industrialisation of the sort thought necessary to prevent the proletariat from being enslaved by capitalism! The official religion of ‘Marxism-Leninism’ was also and essentially a soulless, radically atheistic worship of science and industrial technology applied on a giganticist scale. But in almost all respects, conditions for workers and farmers in the ‘socialist’ USSR paralleled those that prevailed during the miserable centuries of capitalist industrialisation in England - not least through the disastrous fall in agricultural production through forced ‘collectivisation’ of the traditional peasant communes that were so much praised by Marx. And in contrast, under Putin, Russia has become the world’s leading exporter of wheat.

Heidegger saw the essential ‘religion’ of both atheistic Soviet-socialism and ‘Christian’ Western-capitalism as science. He saw also that this seemingly secular religion was essentially Judaic - its principle being that man is destined to command nature as God commands man - and as the human ego is commanded in Judaism to rule strictly over the human body and soul. As for today’s ‘liberal’ West, it is now ‘identity politics’ and its worship of superficial cultural ‘diversity’ that is the new religious ‘opium of the masses’ - one which tolerates no politically incorrect ‘enemies of the people’. Paradoxically however, this ideal of identity diversity both serves and conceals (as it did in the multi-ethnic Soviet Union) a complete ideological homogenisation of a slave proletariat. The difference is only that in the West today, individuals can replace an authentic sense of self with any self-identification of their choice - identity as such having been reduced to a cultural or political ‘brand’ and become an exchangeable commodity - whilst the real, concrete individual remains a slave to their own forced capitalist labour. Identity politics therefore does nothing to prevent the individual being reduced to a mere indivisible quantitative unit or ‘atom’ of capitalist production and consumption. It reduces individuals to a homogenous mass bound only by the sacrifice of their individuality to diverse and divisive forms of narrow group or collective identification.

“Liberal society, which puts itself in opposition to the collective societies of socialism and fascism, has itself become a collective, a standardised and stereotypical one. The more an individual aspires to be unique with the liberal paradigm, the more he becomes similar to everyone else.” Dugin

New technologies exercise the same powerful, driving role in this process as they did in the process of industrialisation. To take but one example, social media such as Twitter have become a veritable hive of discrete identity-political echo chambers in which each individual can be fed with bytes of highly selective and filtered ‘information’, all of which - far from genuinely educating people or expanding the horizons of their thought and consciousness - merely echo, confirm and amplify a set of narrowed down opinions and political identities. People think they are expressing themselves freely or even radically - when in fact their thinking is actually and increasingly imprisoned in such technologically created online echo chambers. Symbols, usernames and online ‘profiles’ become empty ‘avatars’ of individuality and a vehicle for purely ‘virtual’ association with others. At the same time, a new type of mass illiteracy has become the norm. For after all, who needs to read books or even be able to write more than a line or two of text when, even if they had the time to do so, all they need to do is tweet some shallow opinionating or retweet a piece of totally decontextualised journalistic ‘news’. But then ‘globalisation’ does not in any way require a broadly or deeply educated proletariat - only a standing reserve of people who are at best ‘trained’ in narrow technological ‘skills’ all of which need only purely calculative forms of thinking - even in medicine and science. The only real job of a proletariat is thus to remain mindless and unthinking wage slaves - whether by performing unskilled or skilled labour, sitting in front of a computer all day in corporate offices, acting as man-machines giving manual assistance to robotic production lines - or just serving and servicing the continued output of coffee machines in Starbucks.

Don't Play the Enemies' Game. We are Revolutionaries. Be Revolutionary!

For all the best will in the world, political activism can be something which is non-productive or worse, counter-productive.  The phrase Acta Non Verba sums up the futility of words which are employed as a substitution for action.

In the current political climate, political action has become the stuff of pantomime.  Across the spectrum, the 'revolutionary' activities tend to boil down to protest marches and demonstrations (which in every case have to be organised with the express permission of the police and state), and the usual stickering/leafleting campaigns which likewise have to be prepared with one eye on the possible legal ramifications for publishing material which does not conform to the liberal orthodoxy of the globalist Ruling Class.

Set piece activities do not work.  They have become the norm because they are the sanitised and acceptable face of rebellion. They are conformity wrapped in the smug air of dissidence.  To ensure that the people are kept in line, the liberal thugs who violently suppress any 'politically incorrect' expression of thought, have become a particularly insidious type of police by proxy.  This makes activity more difficult.  If only politically acceptable activity can be safely undertaken; if only non-threatening and easily ignored activity is sanctioned by the very state which is the problem, then what is the point in bothering?

A couple of poignant illustrations of pointless activity can be considered by looking at two organisations on opposite sides of the reactionary spectrum.  These two organisations consider themselves revolutionary, but by obeying the rules of the game, they can be proven to be just side-shows and examples of how not to engage in politics:

1.  The National Front (NF). The NF claims to have been in existence for 50 years, and takes great pride in this. Their signature activity is the march.  NF marches were at one point spectacular events attracting vast numbers. They have since dwindled to the shuffling of a few skinheads with media attention dwindling in direct correlation.  They have learnt nothing in 50 years. They have failed to grasp that the massive protest marches in London which occur ever more frequently, achieve nothing.
2. The Socialist Workers Party (SWP). The SWP set piece activity is the paper sale.  This takes the form of a handful of students badgering passers-by to buy the SWP rag (Socialist Worker). An amusing example of such a sale was the SWP setting up stall outside a Bank(!) with the full permission of the Bankers inside to sell their rag.  How very radical, how revolutionary!  Of course it is with bitter irony that the SWP has fallen into the trap of becoming a neutered Trotskyite parody, full of Social Justice Warriors who are so obsessed with bizarre fetish identity politics that they are no threat whatsoever to the Capitalist system.

Demonstrations are not always pointless. 

• Taking a stand alongside Striking Workers shows solidarity and emboldens the cause.  
• Leafleting for specific purposes and specific times is a valid course.  A flash demo outside a bank for the purpose of handing out literature to bank customers exposing the banking racket, is a worthy task (with the purpose of waking people up to the mendacity of the system being far more worthy than selling papers full of liberal drivel which wouldn't look out of place in the Guardian!)
• As long as the leaflets are concise and appropriate (not general and largely irrelevant), and as long as they are handed out personally and in broad daylight (not put through letter boxes / on car windscreens in the dead of night like a reverse burglar!), leaflets have their place.  Stickers?  Do they have any purpose at all? Probably not.

Revolution is not set-piece. Revolution requires imagination and the application of skills which each of us have individually.

• The Education System is Toxic. Don't moan about it! Home school your own children. Where possible set up education cooperatives with like-minded people to teach sanity, and keep the minds of the youth safe from liberal lunacy
• Medicine is largely a cash cow for the Pharmaceuticals Industry. Research Natural Remedies, keep fit, break free as much as you can. Don't moan while continuing to feed the system - get out of the system and help others to do so.
• Stuck in a dead-end soul-destroying job?  Quit!  It isn't easy, but with planning, it is possible. As Socialists we espouse Workers' Cooperatives and the right of the individual to be his/her own boss. These are not theoretical possibilities for a post-revolutionary era; these are real and achievable building blocks of the Revolution right now.  
• Live by example. Moaning about how awful life is, while remaining a cog in the machine, is defeatist. We want to build a better society. We can start by making our own lives better. If we live as Socialists, trade as Socialists, work as Socialists, support each other, help our communities, strive for our people as Socialists, we become living examples and we inspire others to do likewise.

In Wales, the fake patriots of Meibion Glyndwr tackled the problem of tourists depriving locals of homes through buying up property to holiday in, by the utterly stupid strategy of sneaking around at night and setting second homes on fire. This helped house no-one, and only further limited available housing.  A better strategy would have been to break into empty properties and occupy them with people otherwise homeless (and not just Welsh people!)  Meibion Glyndwr made the Welsh people appear to be an English-hating set of idiots, when they could have used a better set of tactics and become a beacon for the homeless across the UK.  We have to be careful not to engage in activities which are counterproductive. The ends and means must work in unison.

Social Media is another minefield. Yes, it is useful in raising awareness. But if it is used without serious thought, it can lead people to the wrong idea about us. The message must be consistent, positive, constructive.  If people want to naval-gaze and engage in self-pitying whinging, they can turn on the TV - they don't need to have the defeatist sickness pushed at them by us. We need to inspire people, and we won't do that by becoming an echo of the mainstream media!

To work Comrades!  Be the Revolution.  Take time to think about how we behave and how the general public see us.  Actions, Not Words, will bring about the end of the Capitalist System, and it is up to us to do all we can, so that others do likewise. We are few, but we can inspire and motivate many. 

The Problems of, and Solutions to, Money - Wilberg on Wednesday

The History of Money Power - Usury versus Fiat Money
Gods, religions, tribes, cultures, cities, civilisations and empires have been around for untold millennia. So also have wars, violence, destruction, plunder, slavery and the forced occupations or migrations of peoples. All these phenomena are interrelated . Marx and Engels were among the first to cease using the religious or cultural paradigms of good and evil to seek a particular scapegoat for these phenomena - or to blame one on the other - but instead to seek to analyse their dialectical interconnection and development. Everyone who has read the Communist Manifesto knows of the historic line of social-economic development that they traced - from primitive communism to slavery, feudalism and industrial capitalism. Few readers, even of Das Kapital , are as knowledgeable of their - and particularly Engel’s analysis - of the history and nature of money and usury. Yes there are the formulae relating commodities to Money. C-C (barter), C-M-C (selling in order to buy, and obtain use values), M-C-M (buying in order to sell and accumulate surplus exchange value - or M for money. Yet what is considered far less, even by Marxists, as well as academic historians in general, is the history and nature of money itself - both in the ancient past and in the present day - where a quite different formula ruled and now rules also: M-M-M. Making money from nothing, and then making money, with money from that money - and all this quite independent of any use-values, commodities or even labour - but purely through money in the form of what is now called ‘fractional reserve banking’ i.e. the multiplication of promissory notes or numismata, whether in the form of clay tablets, letters of credit, paper money or figures keyed into an electronic account - but not based on any actual reserves of either simple commodities such as grain or precious metals such as silver or gold. This brings us to the nature of money, not simply as an accounting unit, exchange value or capital - but as debt. Immediately we have a relation established to religion via the notions of sin, guilt and ‘redemption’. The words for debt and guilt are actually identical in German ( Schuld ) and closely related in many religious cultures. The sinner is the debtor. Therefore ‘forgiveness’ related initially and primarily to debt. Debt forgiveness or ‘redemption’ for the peasantry and lower castes was an annual event in early Sumerian civilisation, in which money - as in many other hierarchical and theocratic civilisations such as Egypt - ruled by divine god-kings from the heavens - was an accounting unit defined, created and quantified by law - fiat, which meant also divine law. The institution of state accounted and state issued fiat money and non-interest bearing credit began in the form of a generalised use-value or commodity such as grain or cattle - both of which can be repaid by reproducing themselves biologically. If this proved impossible, there was debt forgiveness to maintain stability and social well-being.

Before, Behind and Beyond Marx
In his pamphlet “Critique of the Gotha Program,” Marx advocated exactly the same alternative to money as the Welsh socialist Robert Owen - to get rid of money and replace it with labour vouchers, as Hitler did. Yet if one famous Marxist thesis declares that “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”, another, hidden thesis, asserts something quite different, namely that “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of money” - and in particular the long history of a struggle between state money, accounted, quantified and valued by law or fiat on the one hand, and privately accrued debt- and interest-bearing money, created from nothing. Crucial in the evolution of this form of money was the introduction of metal coinage. Aristotle: “Men called bankers we shall hate, for they enrich themselves while doing nothing.” But Plato and Aristotle also disagreed. Plato, unlike Aristotle, was an opponent of private property, and believed in the ‘Chartalist’ principle that money should take the form of a mere token or symbol. Here he anticipated the argument of John Law that “Silver that serves as money with no other use than to buy goods might just as well be replaced by a cheaper material, in the limit, by one that has no commodity value at all, such as printed paper” because “Money is not the Value for which Goods are exchanged, but the Value by which they are exchanged.” On the other hand, what Joseph P. Farrell called the “Babylon’s Banksters” - bullion banksters - went for the ‘Metallist’ thesis that the value of money is and should be intrinsic - based on its own hard won labour-value and its market-value as a commodity. Hence the brutal ancient and modern slave-mines for gold - the conversion of slave ownership from a relatively benign cultural custom into an important source of booty from war, and one which also offers the state rulers and temple priesthoods both a new form of monetary power - and could be used to build up more powerful and well-equipped armies, albeit only through debt to the bullion bankers and slave drivers - who therefore naturally had an innate interest in fostering wars, and all their dire consequences - destruction and destitution that led either to physical slavery or to debt slavery to the same banksters. Engels was more aware of the danger of usury capital than Marx, noting that it was “the principal means for suppressing the common liberty, breaking apart the old communal bonds of the Greek gens, and reinforcing the inequalities and exploitation of the newly emerging class society of the Athenian state”.

“... the growing money economy penetrated like corrosive acid into the old traditional life of the rural communities founded on natural economy … Hence the money rule of the aristocracy now in full flood of expansion also created a new customary law to secure the creditor against the debtor and to sanction the exploitation of the small peasant by the possessor of money…”

“...when men invented money, they did not think that they were again creating a new social power, the one general power before which the whole of society must bow . And it was this new power, suddenly sprung to life without knowledge or will of its creators, which now, in all the brutality of its youth, gave the Athenians the first taste of its might.”

Resistance to the power and rule of bullion and debt-based money in Athens and Persia came only from Sparta - which deliberately used degraded iron as money to defend its fiat currency against silver and gold from the East. In Rome resistance was restored by Julius Caesar, thereby challenging the power of the patrician plutocracy over an impoverished populace. In England it was maintained by the pre-Cromwellian Monarchs (with the exception of King John) who issued tally sticks from the 11th to the 15th century as debt- and interest-free currency. Rejection of the Rothschild banksters was enforced by Napoleon - and, yes, by Tsarist Russia.

In modern times, the battle for fiat money was maintained by the (assassinated) U.S. Presidents Lincoln, Jackson, Garfield and J.F.K. and through the Social Credit movement. State banking and fiat money was used with incredible success by Japan before WW2 (under the influence of the Social Credit Movement), by Germany under Adolf Hitler (under the influence of Gottfried Feder) and by Libya under Gaddafi. It is still maintained by the Isle of Guernsey! Unknown to many is that one of the secrets of Germany’s post-war e conomic success (along with its maintenance and modernisation of its traditional craft and trades apprenticeship system) was its revival, protection and expansion of a significant number of regionally and communally devolved cooperative, public banks - with a share of 40% of total banking assets in Germany. These ‘saving banks’ or Sparkassen are regionally or communally controlled, rather than state controlled, though they operate under state law. They have no owners, but are non-profit savings and credit organisations, designed to serve their local communities, providing low-interest loans for farmers, small and medium-sized businesses, and not engaging in speculative transactions. The attempt to disrupt and destroy rather than replicate this successful regional and communal public banking system, which withstood the 2008 banking crisis, has been an aim of Anglo-American financial and banking interests since the Thatcher-Reagan era.

Some Notes on English History

“In the thirteenth century … the agriculturalist over nearly the whole of Europe was a freer man … England for example, was even in the fifteenth century almost entirely in the hands of thousands of farmers, who were not only legal owners of their land, but possessed in addition far-reaching free rights to common pastures and woodland.” 
Anglo-German philosopher Stuart Houston Chamberlain

From ‘The History of Central Banking’ by Stephen Mitford Goodson:
With the banishment of the money-lenders (Edward III in 1364) and the abolition of usury, taxes were moderate and there was no state debt … Tally sticks were first introduced by Henry II (1100-1135) and would remain in circulation until 1873 …
… With tolerable taxes, no state debt and no interest to pay, England enjoyed a period of almost unparalleled growth and prosperity. The average labourer worked only 14 weeks and enjoyed 140 to 160 holidays. According to Lord Leverhulme, a writer of that time, “The men of the 15th century were very well paid” … a labourer could provide for all the necessities his family required. They were well-clothed in good woollen cloth and had plenty of meat and bread…During their spare hours many craftsmen volunteered their skills in building some of England’s magnificent cathedrals, which reinforces one of the basic tenets of Western Civilisation that without leisure time, the fostering of culture is not possible … The York Minster was completed in 1472 and has the largest expanse of stained glass in the world.

This golden period came to an end with Cromwell - whose Puritanism was financed by Jewish
money (the Jewish usurers even told him he was the Messiah!).

Thirty-three years after Cromwell had let the Jews (back) into Britain, a Dutch prince arrived from Amsterdam, surrounded by a whole swarm of Jews from that financial centre … six years later the Bank of England was established for the purpose of lending money to the Crown. 
A.N. Field All These Things

Henceforth a pattern would emerge where unnecessary wars would be embarked upon which simultaneously increased the national debt and the profit of the usurers. Significantly, most of these wars were started against countries that had implemented interest-free state banking systems, as was the case in the North American colonies and France under Napoleon. This pattern of attacking and enforcing the bankers’ system of usury … includes the defeats of Imperial Russia … Germany, Italy and Japan in WWII, and most recently, Libya in 2011. Goodson

The Great Paradox
The same breed of Jewish money-lenders that heralded from Holland are now freely financing
white nationalist movements such as that of Geert Wilders in Holland! Mr Horowitz’s organisation, Freedom Centre, has paid out $150,000 (£125,000). Some $120,000 of that was given in 2015, making it the largest individual contribution to the political system in The Netherlands in a year. The conservative Zionist think-tank Middle East Forum paid a substantial sum into a legal fund set up for Mr Wilders after he was accused of making racist statements. Two US right-wing foundations, the Gatestone Institute and the International Freedom Alliance Foundation, have sponsored his trips to America. I pray that social nationalist parties in England do not fall prey to this hidden international game - and become mere red-painted Trotskyist or Stalinist pawns in that game.

Fiat Money and ‘Free Energy’ - where Finance meets Physics
There are important and intimate connections between finance and physic s, fiat money and 'free energy '. The 'alchemy' of creating money from nothing can be likened to creating energy from 'nothing'. The question, of course is whether this power rests in the hands of a people’s state or of a tiny elite of private banksters. Another connection between finance and physics is that national financial sovereignty on the one hand, and national energy sovereignty or ‘autarky’ necessarily go together. This is why, in addition to Hitler defying the banksters with state-issued fiat money - but then being forced to fight a war despite trade boycotts and lack of petroleum and rubber - there was also intensive research in Germany into 'free energy' under special departments of the S.S. This in order to ensure energy autarchy in the face of trade boycotts and petroleum shortages. This secret research challenged the established fictions and shibboleths of relativity and quantum mechanics. It also combined conventional with occult science and physics - deriving from earlier pre-war secret societies such as the Vril society (the ‘All-German Metaphysical Society’). Going back even further in history, Joseph P. Farrell claims that a war between god kings, rulers and states issuing their own money, and those wishing to subvert these rulers and their temples and priests using debt-based money and ruthlessly slave-mined silver and gold (to be used purely as money and to finance wars) has not only been going on right through known history , starting with ancient Sumerian, Assyrian, Egyptian and many other civilisations - but has perhaps a 100 million year old pre-history going back to Atlantis - a subject of such great interest to the S.S. that it was intensively researched through expeditions to Tibet and many other countries. This civilisation may have destroyed itself through its advanced sound- and resonance based physics, as a result of which this science was first lost - and preserved only in fragments by secret societies and esoteric thinkers. I believe a sound metaphysical basis for this science can be I found in what I call The Awareness Principle - a principle which has applications in fields as diverse as economics, medicine and the sciences. The Awareness Principle is a unified field theory of awareness - one which denies that awareness is either a product or the private property of any localised body or being, and has an essentially non-local or field character. A physics based on this principle would recognises awareness itself as that universal ‘aether’ (much spoken of by free-energy physicists) which is the very source of all ‘matter’ and all ‘energy’ - and the very stuff’ of which, like dreams “they are made on” (Shakespeare). This new philosophy I call ‘dialectical trans-materialism’. It follows Marx’s insight ( Theses on Feuerbach ) that all previous materialisms have denied the subjective dimension of human sensuous activity and labour.

The chief defect of all previous materialism (including Feuerbach’s) is that the object, actuality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object of perception, but not as sensuous human activity, practice [Praxis], not subjectively . Karl Marx

May 1st: Beltane and International Workers' Day

The 1st of May is an important day for Socialists and for the defenders of nature against the tyranny of Abrahamism.  SWPE doubly celebrates this day, which brings together different aspects of the struggle at the same time.

As Socialists, International Workers' Day is a day of solemn reflection for the plight of the Working Class worldwide.  It is particularly poignant with the UK General Election a mere month away.  With the Labour Party moving ever further away from its Working Class foundations, and with the Tories arrogantly declaring their loyalty to the globalist bankers (not to forget the lunatic liberals who think the Working Class only exist in a Charles Dickens novel), the Working Class is more embattled in the UK than at any time in living memory.

Beltane is also marked today, but rather than as a solemn occasion, it is a time for joy.  Beltane marks the first day of summer, the glorious beauty of the natural world and the appreciation of our place in it.

The enemies of the Working Class have sought to keep us in submission and subordination for as long as there has been despotism.  The unity of Beltane and International Workers' Day is more than a coincidence.  The Ruling Class used their new 'religion' of Christianity to justify their control over the common people.  The Abrahamists pushed the beginning of summer to the beginning of June, in an attempt to break us from our spiritual connection with nature.  The survival of May Day is a victory for the Heathen Working Class over the Abrahamic Ruling Class. Centuries of control have not broken our spirit.  The treacherous politicians of the controlled false democracy are as much our enemies as the clergy who would have us bend our knee to the 'divine' right of the Ruling Class to tell us how to live.  In the UK, Beltane has never been crushed, nor has it been commercialised like our ancient festivals which have been distorted into the capitalist orgies of xmas and easter.

May Day is both a time of reflection as we look at the power of the enemy to control the democratic system and deny us any no major party fit to vote for, and also a time of defiance as we realise that the Ruling Class has only superficial power which it maintains with financial domination over us, but which cannot penetrate into our inner psyche, no matter how much money they reward their collaborators with, or how much poverty they inflict on we who resist.

So Good Health to all of you Comrades.  Our people have endured the tyranny of the Ruling Class poison of Abrahamism, but that sickness is fading away as our Heathenism returns to an open declaration of unity of the people and nature - of a Socialism which is deeper than any economics; a Socialism which is an expression of life itself. All the brutality of the Inquisition, the 'religious' persecutions, the dictatorship of the church, has come to nothing.  The material manipulation of our people will also fail as we rise up and throw off the chains of capitalism and embrace the natural order of Socialism.

Our plight is a hard one, but when we take a step back and see how the enemy has won at a superficial level and never achieved victory in any way which matters, we can be assured that we are far stronger than they are, and that we will be victorious at every level, with the Socialist future eclipsing the terror of Capitalism forever.