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.