Communism is the ‘Electrification of the Soviet Union’ was a statement attributed to Lenin, or one of his chums, about the means or aim of achieving the ideal Communist state. Alas he decided that the only way of doing that was by tyranny and instilling fear in the hearts and minds of the people.
But, in principle, he was right, the rejection and removal of the old ways of thought and of a hierarchical society based on class, privilege and superstition should and must be done away with and replaced by a scientific, rational society. He thought that this was a position to be worked towards but required many years of sacrifice by the people. Dissent and disagreement were punished severely, but it was all in a good cause!
With the eventual demise of Soviet communism in the late 1980s and the weakening of social democracy in the west, the socialists or the ‘Left Wing’, if you will, turned their backs on the working classes who had achieved a level of satisfaction with their lot as their conditions seemingly improved. Capitalism appeared to have triumphed in it’s struggle against socialism which had no way, apart from through revolution, to win that fight. As was said of the miner’s leader Arthur Scargill during the prolonged, and inevitably doomed, miner’s strike in the 1980s ‘the trouble was that Arthur came between the miners and their wages. Socialism sought equality and ‘enrichment’ for the nation, the proletariat as a whole, whereas the aspirations of the working man were essentially self orientated hence the satirical song of the worker:
THE WORKING CLASS CAN KISS MY ASS
I’VE GOT THE FOREMAN JOB AT LAST.
Socialism as a political force began to die out, even the UK Labour party, supposedly socialist in its philosophy, adopted or adapted to private enterprise and the end of nationalisation. The two main parties of the left and right of British politics drew closer to each other until some of their policies were almost identical.
The Socialists, the Left Wing , needed a new cause to champion and they saw this opportunity with Identity politics and Transgenderism.
The ‘philosophy’ of Postmodernism that was increasingly adopted in the late 20th and early 21st centuries with its rejection of science, rationalism and objective truth in favour of Individualism and ‘Lived Experience’ meant that personal choice and self identity became the way forward. The activists for this way of thought adopted an aggressive attitude towards those who dared to challenge their logic. They claim that it is possible for a man to become a woman just by claiming that he is one. Once he declares he is female he does not have to look, behave or think like a woman, he does not have to possess or demonstrate any femininity but must be treated like a woman and can use female only spaces and join in women’s sports. Anyone, including women, who object to this are accused of misogyny.
Although these activists are called ‘Left Wing’ they have little or nothing in common with political Socialists. I feel in a bit of a bind myself as a political ‘Left Winger’ because although I agree with Left Wing policies about equality in the wider community I am a firm believer and advocate of there being only 2 sexes and genders based on one’s genetic and chromosomal structure from conception.
If a man wants to put on a frock and call himself Deirdre that is fine but if he asserts that by doing so he merits all the benefits and legal rights of being a woman then needs to be brought to book and be made to face the reality of his biological sex.
Poverty is a matter of nurture not nature, it is not innate within a person but is the effect of the society that person lives in. Sex and gender is a matter of nature not nurture, you are born what you are and the society around you cannot change that.
Think about it.
In the Humble Opinion of Eddie 