The Philosophy of Co-operative Socialism

 The plan for Co-operative Socialism is intended as a replacement for capitalism, not a set of adjustments to it. Our hope is that a new era of peace, love and sustainability may be brought about peacefully, nonviolently and democratically by implementing this plan, which is a replacement for the five <strong>'TRIP-Up'</strong> mechanisms that Capitalism, and other forms of tyranny, use, which are:

<strong>• T</strong> = Theft/Taxes

<strong>• R</strong> = Rent

<strong>•</strong> <strong>I</strong> = Interest

<strong>•</strong> <strong>P</strong> = Profits to shareholders

<strong>•</strong> <strong>Up</strong> = Unequal pay for work

In the long term, we envisage that<strong> 'Ownership'</strong> may be  replaced by agreements for 'Co-operative Careship'. <strong>Rent</strong>, Interest and Profits to shareholders are abolished. <strong>Workplaces</strong> are restructured as <strong>Co-operatives</strong>, some of which will be interest-free, not-for-profit Solidarity Co-ops: providing finance and business help to the wealth- and wellness-creating co-ops. All these with form a non-hierarchical set of local and National Co-operative Commonwealths: as an autonomous part of a Global <strong>Co-operative Commonweal. </strong>All for Peace and The Common Good.

<strong>History:</strong>

About every five hundred years, the human experiment takes off in a new direction, or rather, it is forced to take off in a new direction. So, for example, in 1066 the Norman Empire's form of feudalism replaced the Tribalism of Wessex, Mercia, etc, here in England. Five hundred years, or so, before that, that form of Tribalism replaced the Roman Empire which, itself had, 500 years before replaced the older family-based Tribalism of Boudica and so on. So, after about 500 years from 1066, Norman feudalism was replaced by capitalism - when, in 1545, <strong>Henry VIII</strong> allowed usury to be legal for the first time in the English speaking world (Harry Page's book 'In Restraint of Usury' is cited in the book-list page at www.interestfreemoney.org - here is a direct link to the booklist:<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.interestfreemoney.org/books.htm">http://www.interestfreemoney.org/books.htm.</a>

<em>So, now, 500 years on from 1545 (near enough) it's time to replace capitalism</em> . . .  with something better . . . picking up from the <a href="http://www.interestfreemoney.org">Campaign for Interest-Free Money</a> that we began on 28th January 1998.....  here is an updated version of a paper which first appeared on that website, introducing <a href="http://www.co-operativesocialism.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Co-operative_Socialism_201305.pdf">The Way Forward: Co-operative Socialism</a><strong>.</strong>

An earlier paper published in "Readings from the CCPA Monitor" in 2010 is here: <a href="http://www.interestfreemoney.org/papers/CCPA-Co-operativeSocialism.pdf">http://www.interestfreemoney.org/papers/CCPA-Co-operativeSocialism.pdf</a>

A  description of the <strong>Plan for Co-operative Socialism</strong> is also on an Occupy London web-page: <a href="http://occupylondon.org.uk/co-operative-socialism-by-john-courtneidge/">http://occupylondon.org.uk/co-operative-socialism-by-john-courtneidge/</a>.

For now, the plan that you see is the one that has already been adopted by <a href="http://labour-peace-action.org.uk">Labour Action for Peace</a> (in 2013), by <a href="https://occupylondon.org.uk">Occupy London</a> (in 2014, as 'an alternative to capitalism') and by the Bromley Branch of The <a href="https://party.coop">Co-operative Party</a> (also in 2014).

<strong>Forward Planning</strong>

We are developing separate pages covering FIVE POLICY AREAS and action opportunities: • <strong><a href="http://www.co-operativesocialism.org/overview/why-and-how/">Why and How</a> • <a href="http://www.co-operativesocialism.org/overview/land-issues/">Land Issues • </a><a href="http://www.co-operativesocialism.org/overview/workplace-issues/">Workplace Issues</a> • <a href="http://www.co-operativesocialism.org/overview/money-finance-banking-issues/">Money, Finance and Banking Issues</a> • <a href="http://www.co-operativesocialism.org/overview/income-issues/">Income Issues</a></strong>.

The Plan for Co-operative Socialism will hopefully evolve as new generations see new opportunities.  Meanwhile, a preliminary current definition is as follows:

<em>"Co-operative Socialism is a set of policy proposals to help create the co-operative commonwealth, in other words, a world of human and ecological co-operative relationships, rather than capitalism's warfare of coercive human and ecological relationships."</em>

Co-operative Socialism and Land Issues

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Co-operative socialism and land issues co-operative socialism abolishes the ownership of economic resources and replaces our relationship as humans with economic resources including land air sea electromagnetic radiation frequencies, etc, etc. with agreements for Co-operative care ship.

Since demands for Rent are exploitative, Co-operative Socialism abolishes Rent, Interest, Profits and Unequal-pay for work.

these agreements are designed to ensure that remediation of land is carried out on a co-op basis. It's one step on from the idea of a fully repairing lease in such place. 

The lessee's agree to hand back the resource in As good Estate as they went into the lease. 

in an agreement with the community for Co-operative careship of land the idea is that the people who agree to care for that land resource decide and agree to improve the land and at the end of there? Use for the common. Good of that land resource the land is in better shape fertility. Etc than when they went into the agreement for Co-operative care ship. 

For those of us. Who approached these matters in a religious or spiritual sense? 

We are talking about pan n theism. not pantheism which is the idea that everything is God but rather that God is present within everything. 

accordingly 

if we take control of an Economic Resource and use it for our own purposes or that of our family or particular group even if it is a co-operative. then selection implies 

removal from attachment as part of the whole. 

in co-operative care ship the idea is that the co-operators and it could be a single cooperator decide to adopt and implement the plan for Co-operative socialism including the Co-operative values and principles from the international co-operative Alliance as their principles and values by which they will care for the resource. 

this applies as much to physical land the air the seas and Waterways electromagnetic radiation and also to what I might call frozen land. In other words buildings tools equipment anything where land based resources have had value added to them in order to help human beings live full healthy and happy lives. Which leads us to the question of wealth creation and also workplace organisation that's the next topic. 

Radio Interview on Co-operative Socialism.

 Here's a recorded radio interview.

It starts after a very few earlier comments (about Spain and Franco):

https://youtu.be/3coMQcPi7Uw

Jabbers! Sign away your houses and assets now!

 Hedley Rees Covax supply chain misfeasance expert report.pdf

Phew!

Marvellous!

Is this a smokescreen to assert that: the 'vaccines' generate no adverse effects *if handled properly*: such adverse effects, up to and including permanent paralysis and death, are therefore due to 'Operator Error': not Manfacturer Liability.

Jabbers!

You have been warned: sign away your houses and assets now!

What's *Really* Going On

 The smokescreens of Covid, Vaccines, The Ukraine, Ghislane-gate, Party-gate, Cake-gate are all there to obscure the fact that #NaziCapitalismMarxism is finally replacing the nonsense on stilts called 'Rights' with its full-blown Global #MarxistFascism.

The UK 'Government' has just announced that it is 'modifying' the Human 'Rights' legislation with #NaziMarxistCapitalistTyranny:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights

However:

It is the case that you have no 'Rights'. You have Permissions.

They are contingent.

The only 'Right' that matters to Capitalism is the one half down the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

It is very foolishly placed at thst point because when that Declaration is printed in a two-column format it appears at the top of the second column.

That 'Right' is the assertion that you (or rather they, the Monarchy, Aristocracy and Capitalists: the 2%) have a 'Right' to own 'Private Property', alomg with the (silent) consequential 'Right' to use it for *your own* benefit.

Ie, these Two Key 'Rights' of Theft ('Ownership') and Use-for-personal benefit (Usury: no 'quotes') are what the fake flim-flammery of 'Rights' is all above: just an assertional 'defence' of capitalism.

A 'defence' that flows back, at least, to Jeremy Bentham's 'In Defence of Usury' (copies of which consitute the British Library's 'only' holdings - public catalogue holdings that is - on 'usury'.

That pamphlet simply asserts that a sane man has every right to practice, and profit from usury (and, please don't allow any assertion that usury is 'excessive' profit-taking: The Usurer's Assertion).

This is why I offer Co-operative Careship as the proper relationship to economic resources (rather than Theft plus Usury: Capitalism) and consequential actions for Peace, Remediation and The Common Good (ie #truesocialism not the #SatanicNaziMarxist 'Communism' conspiracy that Klaus Schwab and his World Federalist Conspiracy is pishing through the World 'Economic' Forum (as the successor conspiracy to the World Trade Organisation).

And, hence, the true alternative to Capitalism's #FakeRightsPolitics - the pan for Co-operative Socialism.

By Tuesday!

(And The Kingdom by Easter Sunday!)

When innundated

 Very best wishes and thanks Mark and colleagues.

On many YouTube channels, the haters and trolls get short shrift: the idea of these well-funded cunts is to disprit people from doing good work (God's work).

Might I suggest that you craft a generic response?

Something like:

Thank-you for this.

I get too many enquiries challenging and/or asking questions regarding this.

To the outright nay-sayers, I immediately block you and wish you well.

Do the geninue enquirers, please don't respond. Set or join local groups and do your research and work where you are.

Very best wishes,

God and Satan

 [07/01, 20:44] John Courtneidge: Thank-you beloved brother! Abundant thanks, well packed down.

From the evidence of experience, I am a panentheist (God is present, eveywhere, all the time, in His Creation): I am not a pantheist (Everything id God: Everywhere, all the time. Since that would require Evil to be God, too: nonsense).

Now as to Satan/The Devil. Again from tne evidence of experience, I consider that Satan/The Devil exists only in one place: within every human being.

And that the outward appearance of Satan-within-each-of-us (I wonder if there is a 'kosher' term for that) is the selfishness that is driven by our fears.

Now, all animals seem to exhibit fear, so fear isn't alone Satan.

Though what and where Satan is in humans, uniquely I consider, I cannot, as yet, say.

Love,

John

[07/01, 20:50] John Courtneidge: From this:

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-the-devil

The following:

   'In Judaism, Satan is a verb and generally refers to a difficulty or temptation to overcome instead of a literal being.'

[07/01, 21:03] John Courtneidge: Fascinating, also:

https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/satanism