In 1940 two men slipped into Britain using forged immigration papers to escape the totalitarian regimes of the both Stalin and Hitler.
These were father and son, Samuel and Ralph (nee Adolphe) Miliband, Ralph was born in Brussels of Polish-Jewish émigré parents. Both his parents lived in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, before his father, Samuel Miliband, joined the Red Army in the Polish–Soviet War.He is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx.
Ralph went on to become a darling of the New Left, a sociology academic. Having fled totalitarianism in the East arriving in a still relatively Liberal Britain, Miliband Senior set about propounding a Socialism to reproduce in Britain what he had fled from in 1940. Today one of his bland off spring (it really does not matter which) will complete the Miliband family's ingratitude to this country by presiding over a Labour party that has produced a Stasi state in the last thirteen years,wrecked the economy and produced an irresponsible dependent population. To cap it all launched the type of aggressive wars of occupation that Miliband senior fled from.
The Socialism that has influenced the Milliband clones is of a variety that is intellectual, high flown and theoretical. Its consequences of sink estates, poverty and wasted tattooed lives are of very little consequence to such 'East European' intellectualism. Intellectualism has only found root in Britain in the last sixty years of State Welfarism, because it allowed such ideologues to find financial support by finding 'employment' in ever growing State institutions and Quangos.
In Liberal Britain we once had learned academics who espoused the rigour of research in the arts and sciences, and embraced the liberal values of tolerance started in the age of Reason and Enlightenment.
Today will see the victory of Marxist Social Democratic Ideology over Tolerance and Reason, started when Liberal Britain gave refuge to another East European intellectual, Karl Marx.
This Labour Party election is almost North Korean in outlook, favoured sons of a political elite being anointed. That it is why it has been a boring and inconsequential 'election'. The real power lies with the Bob Crowe's of this world, the pay masters of the 'Nouveau' Left. They know that their overt hatchet faced class warrior rhetoric will not find favour with the people of this country, so they need the fresh faced Peter Pan's of politics (achievable by never having worked outside of the cloisters of Whitehall) to be the 'nice' facade of the brutalism of Bureaucratic Socialism.
What of the Conservatives and their erstwhile allies the Social Democrats ? Rather than fight on the grounds of individual Liberty, Cameronism has swung behind the 'Social Democratic Centre'. When Cameron was elected as Party Leader, the Conservatives were looking for somebody to ape Tony Blair, and they found him.
We now have a Prime Minister who would rather pander to a bloated State and Welfarism, than maintain our defence forces. Defence is the only valid reason for a State to exist. By Defence I mean the defence of our Home Islands not wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan. These entanglements should be ended immediately. Bring the troops home, re-equip properly, pay the armed forces a living wage, and ensure that unlike the Wars of Wellington, The Crimea, First and Second World Wars the Servicemen whose lives have been wrecked and that of their dependants are paid a Military pension, that far outstrips that of a dole to sustain the dull, lager drinking fraternity.
The Acid Bath I refer to in the title is a political system that has very little legitimacy, it is a system of interlocking Whitehall elites. The Acid does not allow the Greens, UKIP, the far Right,the far left, Liberals, Libertarians, Nationalists a say in any National debate because we are denied a voice.
I am currently standing as Leader of the Libertarian Party. A party I hope to persuade to adopt a change to the Libertarian & Constitutional Party, to fight for not only Libertarian Policies but for Constitutional Reform and to introduce a Swiss Style Constitution where the State is subordinate to the Canton (County), the Canton subordinate to the Individual.
Only by draining the bath of the Acid that kills all political debate other than the elitism of State Milibandism will this country start to have some pride and direction. The only alternative is the continued growth of State Corporatism, with attendant repression and loss of freedom.
© Andrew P Withers
8 comments:
Hear, hear. And well said.
"Having fled totalitarianism in the East arriving in a still relatively Liberal Britain, Miliband Senior set about propounding a Socialism to reproduce in Britain what he had fled from in 1940."
- What offensive guff. For shame. If you seriously think that Ralph Miliband wanted anything like a Nazi regime you need your head examining.
On top of that, the idea that Ed Miliband is some kind of Marxist is even more ridiculous. Laughably so, in fact.
If it walks like a duck, etc.
"the idea that Ed Miliband is some kind of Marxist is even more ridiculous"
Huh ? What is he then ?
He also was in the most Authoritarian Government we have had since 1816. Now that is offensive.
Guthrum,
I don't see what Ed Miliband's involvement in the New Labour project has to do with Ralph Miliband alleged desire for a Nazi-style state. Can you enlighten me? Or is this just whataboutery?
As for what Ed Miliband is. I'd probably place him as a centrist, or at most a soft social democrat. The idea that he's a Marxist is laughable. Which key tents of Marxism does he subscribe to? None I can think of. If libertarians throw words like 'Marxist' round willy-nilly, it makes them look foolish and ignorant of political philosophy. And there's no need for them to look that way. Libertarians should be clear and accurate in diagnosing the faults of their foes, and not make hyperbolic comments that are only expected from the lunatic fringe.
Social Democracy is grounded in Marxist ideology- it is quote evolutionary reformist socialism.
Marxist does not equate to communist.
Ralph Miliband was an avowed Marxist, who fled Authoritarian regimes.
Which bit are you having difficulty understanding ?
Ed Miliband is not a Conservative, he is not a Liberal, he belongs and now leads a reformist social democratic party that owes their basic ideological allegiance to Karl Marx or Ferdinand Lassalle.
Before you start banding words like lunatic displaying your woe political and historical ignorance, remember which government trusts its people to the extent that we have 25% of the worlds CCTV cameras on our streets.
Wilful acceptance of such a state of affairs is lunatic.
you are literally mental, just putting that out there
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