A Call to all Christians

  From John Courtneidge

Discussion Proposal for a CCMJ Public Declaration: for debate on Monday 4th September 2023 at Victoria Station Wetherspoons 3-7pm.

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From The Christian Council for Monetary Justice (CCMJ, founded in 1960).

CCMJ recognises that Capitalism - and Marxism - are inconsistent with both The Spirit of Christ and all the Teachings of Jesus: since they, both, rely on Theft (of God's Creation) and Usury (of People, Planet, our co-inhabitants and of God's Love and Wisdom: provided by Him, for all).

Accordingly:

1) The Christian Council for Monetary Justice (CCMJ, www.ccmj.org) therefore calls all Christians to repudiate Capitalism, Marxism and all other forms of Authoritarian, Hierarchical forms of Satanism. 

2) CCMJ, also invites all Christians and Christian organisations, Churches, Religious Societies, etc, to promote an examination of the plan and democratic process called Co-operative Socialism (ie, #truesocialism) as already adopted by Labour Action for Peace, Occupy London, Bromley Peace Council, Bromley Trade Union Pensioners' Action Association and the Bromley Co-operative Party Branch.

3) With a view to Democratic Parliamentary Implementation and Annual Celebration Review of this process and plan.

So that none shall have too little, and none shall have too much.

In, and for, His Holy Name.

Web references:

www.interestfreemoney.org/papers (see the CCPA Reader on Co-operative Socialism)

www.co-operativesocialism.org (a work in progress)

www.sustainabilitynotcapitalism.blogspot.com (an archive of short essays)

Proposed: John Courtneidge 25 August 2023

Text to +44 07950996418

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A little history

 

Ash Carr kindly asked abour the 'Our' in 'Our Plan for Co-operative Socialism'.

I offered:

. The 'Our' aspect is in two parts: firstly, although I initiated the plan back in 1994/5, two other groups helped complete it: The Social Credit Party pointed out that I hadn't included the matter as to how money is created in the first place. Secondly, The Communist Party of Great Britain (in North London) pointed out that they wished to abolish money altogether. So that went in, also.

Secondly, the 'Our' refers to to people and organisations that have already adopted Our Plan for Co-operative Socialism. I'll ennumerate them in a separate message.

As to George Galloway, The Workers' Party etc, I'll also post separately soon.

Thanks again!

Co-operative Socialism Defined in Forty Words

Co-operative Socialism Defined in Forty Words:

A guaranteed Living Income for Everyone, a Socially-determined Upper Income level, and most human needs provided on a Community-provided, Free-at-the-point of use basis.

Global peace and Co-operative Care by all and their workplace Co-operatives. No poverty, no greed, no harm.

Work and Politics

 After about 13 years, both of my fitted bed sheerts have ripped. My flat flannelette top sheets likewise.

Human beings need lots of mainly two-dimensional material items: sheets, clothes, walls, roofs, writing, etc, paper. But Mother Natures mostly provides largely one-dimensional and three-dimensional materials (fibres, trees, etc for the former, rocks, including frozen water as examples of the latter.

Hence work by us, The Worked Class, the 88%. Parasiticed by the 2%, The Thieves of those Natural, God-containg, Resources, and their hired Assassins, the 10%.

So, John, what's this Co-operative Socialism thing all about?

 So, John, what's this Co-operative Socialism thing all about?

I offered the following to our friend and comrade Harry: he had used the terms that I discuss below:

Here in the UK, supporters of a 'Mixed Economy' nowadays are Social Democrats: the right-wings of The (New Zionist) Labour Party and of The Co-operative Party, along with One-Nation Macmillanite Conservatives likewise. Fibs? One never knows from one side of lunch to the other. Nats? Always a mixture.

One hundred years' ago, The Social Democratic Federation of H M Hyndman were out-and-out Marxists so terms change/are changed over time.

Ps I'm not, nor ever was 'A Communist' and my form of #truesocialism is not that of the 'Nationalise Everything' #wokeMarxists like Morrison and Webb. Equally, I'm not an anarchist believing in the abolition of 'The State'.

Rather, my/our plan envisages each Nation State as being Internationalist (ie, Inter-Nationalist as in 'Between-Nations' not in the #InternationalMarxism 'sense') and each Nation State being the Servant/Facilitator of each Nation as a Co-operative Commonwealth (composed of local and national Co-operative Commonwealths). With every Co-operative Commonwealth creating, thereby, by their adherence to the Co-operative Definition, Values and Principles (see the ICA Statement as archived at www.interestfreemoney/papers), a global Co-operative Commonweal (ie the Wellness of all in The Wellness of All).

Hence Points 6 and 7 of our plan (as also on that web-page):

Co-operative Socialism Plan, Point 6: 'Grants not loans to other Countries, not interest-bearing loans to 'Third World Countries' in need: an end to money, banking and finance as globalised warfare.

Point 77: ' All our brothers our sisters, all our sisters our brothers: a Global, Peaceful, Harmonious Co-operative Commonweal'.

Ps I paraphrase, from memory, these two Plan Points. The actual texts as adopted by, say Labour Action for Peace, Occupy London, Bromley Peace Council, Bromley Trade Union Pensioners' Action Association, Bromley Co-operative Party, are at that web-page and in the free pdf CCPA Monitor Reader on Co-operative Socialism, there.

I hope that this helps!

Who Gets How Much? Two Annual Recommendations.

 A friend wrote: Who determines the minimum/maximum incomes,the Government? it'll never be fair.

I offer: the short answer is 'Us The People, Democratically.'

In more detail, the Process that the plan for Co-operative Socialism envisages involved The Second Chamber (ie in the UK, The House of Lords: as is or as repopulated on a Citizens'Jury, Randomocracy basis: ie, not! Elected) making two recommendations to the First, Elected Chamber (ie in the UK, The Constituency-elected House of Commons, as now), by the end of July each year, as to the £-amount of the 'Living Income for Everyone': A LIFE for all and the Maximum Income for Paid Work in both £-terms and as a multiplier of the £-LIFE Amount. Then for The House of Commons to issue its response to those Two Recommendations by the end of October each year as part of its Annual Audit, Celebration and Review of the Impementation of the plan for Co-operative Socialism.

A Call To All Christians

 From John Courtneidge

Discussion Proposal for a CCMJ Public Declaration: for debate on Monday 4th September 2023 at Victoria Station Wetherspoons 3-7pm.

STARTS

From The Christian Council for Monetary Justice (CCMJ, founded in 1960).

CCMJ recognises that Capitalism - and Marxism - are inconsistent with both The Spirit of Christ and all the Teachings of Jesus: since they, both, rely on Theft (of God's Creation) and Usury (of People, Planet, our co-inhabitants and of God's Love and Wisdom: provided by Him, for all).

Accordingly:

1) The Christian Council for Monetary Justice (CCMJ, www.ccmj.org) therefore calls all Christians to repudiate Capitalism, Marxism and all other forms of Authoritarian, Hierarchical forms of Satanism. 

2) CCMJ, also invites all Christians and Christian organisations, Churches, Religious Societies, etc, to promote an examination of the plan and democratic process called Co-operative Socialism (ie, #truesocialism) as already adopted by Labour Action for Peace, Occupy London, Bromley Peace Council, Bromley Trade Union Pensioners' Action Association and the Bromley Co-operative Party Branch.

3) With a view to Democratic Parliamentary Implementation and Annual Celebration Review of this process and plan.

So that none shall have too little, and none shall have too much.

In, and for, His Holy Name.

Web references:

www.interestfreemoney.org/papers (see the CCPA Reader on Co-operative Socialism)

www.co-operativesocialism.org (a work in progress)

www.sustainabilitynotcapitalism.blogspot.com (an archive of short essays)

Proposed: John Courtneidge 25 August 2023

Text to +44 07950996418

ENDS