The Democratic and Co-operative Socialist Route

 The democratic and Co-operative socialist route is:

Adopt our objective as the replacement of Capitalism by a Co-operative Commonwealth, Nationally, and a Co-operatie Commonweal, Globally.

Adopt the plan for Co-operative Socialism.

Educate the electorate as to its features.

Become the Party of Government.

Implement the plan for Co-operative Socialism in the first two years of the first Parliamentary Term.

Annually, thereafter, Audit its Successes and Failures: with an Annual Festival of Celebration, in every locality.

First step: set up an autonomous 'X and District Guild of Co-operators: For Peace and The Common Good'.

Then debate adoption of the plan for Co-operative Socialism: as it presently is with, if felt necaessary, a 'Local Statement' that could form the basis for inclusion in a triennial review process.

Details of the present plan for Co-operative Socialism are at the top of, about, page 5 of the CCPA Reader on Co-operative Socialism, which is in the papers' section at www.interestfreemoney.org

Ps as Guilds grow, they might find the Sunflower Organisational Model, also on that papers' page, of use.

I hope so!

October 2020: Where We Are Now

 To summarise where we all are: all of the events are designed to ensure the continuation of Capitalism and its evil offspring, The Zionist Nazi Apartheid State of Israel.

If that involves the Mandatory Sterilisation and Extinction of Billions of Humans and the creation of a slave-force of Genetically Modified Humans, that's what the 2% (The Thieves called The Capitalists) will have their Praetorian Guard (the10%) do.

To us, the 88%.

Ps and, as all Degenerate Times teach us, that  slave-force of Genetically Modified Humans will include babies and children bred for Child-rape and Satanic Ritual purposes with Harems of Sex 'Workers' - of all Genders and none - for the use of the Praetorian Guard and The Élite Thieves.

The glitch in all this is that the board game if Monopoly teaches us that, in a competitive, money-using world, the 2% get shrunk to a 0.00001% and the money mechanism used to fund the Praetorian Guard (ie, taxation of us, the 88%) dries up.

So the 0.0001% have to ask for 'Volunteers' from within the, now, 88+% to be Covid Narks and Covid Marshals.

It is only by education, organisation, the proposition of Better, that we will avoid that Human Extinction option.

Hence the living, loving plan for #truesocialism : the plan for Co-operative Socialism.

You can help by setting up non-federated local Guilds of Co-operators for Peace and The Common Good.

Just as we have done for Littlehampton and District and for South-East London and North-West Kent.

Local organisation to implement the plan for Co-operative Socialism.

Co-operative Socialism: Foreword

History tells us that about every 500 years the human experiment has to take off in a new direction.

We are indeed about 100 years delayed in that process of, 'Change towards wellness.'

One hundred years ago, the 'Politics of the Act', such as bomb throwing, assassination and so-on, showed how great the strains had become in the prior one-hundred-year period.

At that time, economic inequality had grown to such an extent that the question was not 'What shall we have for tea tonight?', but, rather, 'Will there be *anything* for tea tonight?'.

In the subsequent one-hundred years, things have become worse.

This book, then, describes how things can get better.

And quickly!

It describes a plan for economic equality and equity and, thus, for wellness.

For various reasons, this plan is called 'The Plan for Co-operative Socialism': it is designed to replace the five mechanisms that create inequality and, so, produce, by creating economic, socially-determined, equality and equity, 'Peace, prosperity and sustainability for all'.

The mechanism proposed to bring about this beneficial transition is that which the past one-hundred years has been shown to work: Parliamentary Democracy.

For those who doubt that such beneficial change can be brought about peacefully, nonviolently and without bullying, that recent history shows that, 'Progress to equality' is, indeed, possible.

Additionally those 'In charge' of this present catastrophe know that, 'The game is up!'

Time, then, for True Co-operative Socialism!

By Tuesday!

John courtneidge, Sunday 4th January 2018.

Co-coperative Socialism and Incomes

 Co-operative Socialism and Incomes

Our friend Lucy Bee asks about this.

I offered:

Lucy: the plan for Co-operative Socialism calls for a socially-determined level of income in/equality.

Accordingly, the Secon Chamber would make a pair of Annual Recommendations to the Elected First Chamber as to:

A) the £-amount of the guaranteed Living Income payment that should be made to every person normally-resident in that Country's jurisdiction, and,

B) the maximum amount in £-per-hour that should be paid to people who do paid work: it would be a matter, then, for each workplace to determine, as they see fit, the distribution of paid-work pay levels in their own workplace, based on that Socially-determined pay-for-work upper limit.

I hope this helps.

Where The Blockage to Progress lies

 I have been led to consider where the blockage to progress lies.

When I lived in The London Borough of Bromley, it was noticeable how many retired Trade Union General Secretaries were living very comfortable lives there, alternating their days resisting even a discussion on our plan for Co-operative Socialism . . . and playing golf.

Those life styles rely on comfortable, for them, not their retired members (less still us, the long-term unemployed and, thus, ex-members).

Those fat 'Occupational' Pensioners don't have to scrape along using coffee and tea 'whiteners', as those of us who gave had the unusual grace to *survive* to State Pensionable age.

No! Cabernet and Sauvignon for them and their wives.

The same is true for the Co-operative Retail Societies.

Their Employee Pension Funds are 'invested' (or trapped as hostages) in the Capitalists' Stock Market.

And so, those 'Senior' employees, The Trades Union General Secretaries, Co-operative Society CEO's, along with Labour Party General Secretaries, Fabian Society General Secretaries, Co-operatives UK/Co-operative Union General Secretaries and CEOs are Quislings, by default, for Capitalism/Zionism.

That's where the blockage lies: those 'Leaders' Above-fair Occupation Pensions.

Funded by The Capitalists' Stock Market.

To our detriment.

Grr!

 

The True Progressive Path

 Since I wrote this, inequality has been increased.

As a result, the four extreme corners of the Four-Quadrant Personality Map have been more highly populated.

Consequently, the Four Extreme Pathologies (all initiated, I conjecture, by toxic surfeits of the four Quadrant-associated neuroactive imbalances) are dominating society.

Those Extreme Pathologies seem to be:

   Ultra-Orange Pathology: Libertarian Anarchism

   Ultra-Gold Pathology: Dogmatic Authoritarian Racist, Monarchist, Conservative Nationalist Nazism

   Ultra-Green Pathology: Dogmatic Authoritarian Know-it-all, Fake-Progressive Marxism

   Ultra-Blue Pathology: Off-with-the-fairies, Individualism

Upon reflection, therefore, the True Progressive path is a Horizontalist balance: of 'Freedom-within-Co-operative Society' ie, of the Order that creates good health and appropriate security, with, in equal measure,  the 'Freedom to be Contribute and be Creative, For The Common Good'.

Of course, that's what our living plan for true Co-operative Socialism is all about!

The Experience of Unemployment

My Facebook friend, John Osman, has kindly asked me to comment on my twenty-two years of unemployment: which started in 1994 when I came back from Canada and was ended when I was retired in 2016.

For the last few years, even the Job Centre admitted that there never would be paid work for me and decided to switch me from JSA to Pension Credit.

And, no, I was never deemed or assessed for Disability Benefit income.

Now, back in 1994 I assumed that, as everyone said, 'Something would turn up'.

It didn't.

And, as we know, 'Unemployment us a price worth paying.'

It is, therefore, *deliberately created, monitored and managed*.

So that the cost is borne by Worked Class people: not, as a result of Revolution, by our Oppressors and Exploiters, The Middle Class and The Capitalist Usurers respectively.

Indeed, it is astonishing that, a) the Experience of Unemployment, which is part of The Experience of Virtually *Every* Family, is so little discussed or researched in Academic Circles (how many Professors of Unemployment Studies are there world-wide: none have I found) and b) that the shame associated with unemployment is an automatic killer aspect for those who are *made* and *kept* unemployed.

So, despite my efforts to, for example, return to teaching Chemistry in schools, nothing did ever 'turn up'.

Yes, in those twenty-two years I had all sorts of short-term, often Part-time and Seasonal jobs: in a Print Factory, in an office, trying to sell newspaper subscriptions by phone, etc, etc: the most awful being, probably, in a bottle, etc return deposit depôt in British Columbia, where the returns to be sorted included addicts' needles and used nappies. Ughh!

At first, I imagined that I was 'Between jobs': not 'unemployed'.

Partly that was because The Job Centre (or as a friend-then named it, 'The Joke Centre': a cruel jibe about a cruel inhuman place, whose degraded, degrading task is, not to find applicants jobs, but, rather, to smash them into beggary, prostitutions and worse) wouldn't register me for any Unemployment Benefits since I had some savings from my years of paid work, including a Pension that I cashed in.

So, the odds and ends of paid work came and went (mostly the latter) and I returned, as was Margaret Hilda's plan, 'To the gutter' where we, The Worked Class and the Untermench Class belonged.

Literally: at the Print Factory, which was supposed to be a High-Security Print Works, where Examination Papers etc were printed (and it wasn't: the back shipping door and gate were always open) we were not allowed to stay inside at Lunchtime. So we were corralled out, past a notice-board, where someone famously put up a samisdat copy if the Company's Accounts showing that The Company made essentially no profits (because of the Interest that it 'had' to pay to its Owners of many Centuries' standing: sound familiar? National Debt etc . . .).

So, once outside, the others disbursed and I remained: sitting on the car-park kerb, to eat my sandwiches.

Just where the Managing Director parked his car: a choice spot.

So, as time, place and savings dribbled on, I realised that, yes, I was unemployed and, as such, despite these odds and ends of paid work, it was an insult to those more deeply suffering than me from the shame of unemployment that I would accept the term if self& description as 'Unemployed'.

Ashamed as I was of it.

Now, during those years, I looked for books that might describe and, even, explain the Causes Of, and Experience Of, Unemployment.

I've, realistically only found three.

Of those, one was self-published, one a discard from the Public Library in Eugene Oregon in the US  (thank-you www.bookfinder.com !) while the one photographed was in the stacks at our local, West Sussex Public Library (thank-you to our Littlehampton Free Public Library staff!): in which is the surprising discovery that the term 'unemploynent' was only coined in the late Nineteenth Century.

Prior to that, the term was, apparently, 'Distress from Want Of Employment'.

I bet that Worked-class people had less genteel terms.

But another *excellent* book, 'The Common People' by JFC Harrison, also photographed, doesn't say what