WHY WE NEED MORE SOCIALISM

It is important to note for anyone frightened of the word socialism that none of us supporting the need for more socialism envisages any past systems as ideal for our time.

Anyone who wants any previous system that called itself socialist but incorporated oppression as a standard means of maintaining power is deluded and dangerous.

What we require now is a gradual increase in spreading the enormous wealth that now exists to greater and greater numbers of people. And this we wish to do through consent, not through violent revolution nor the robbing of some to give to others without their consent. This is a consensual movement based on a general acknowledgment by all that our present system is unsupportable and unsustainable and that the future clearly consists of ever more of the same. That is why Democratic Socialism as delineated by Bernie Sanders is the right and proper direction to proceed in. The world has had enough of revolutionaries who became reactionaries in their turn once in power. This has to be a voluntary acceptance of the need for more socialism gained through enlightened consent by all.

The world is at a watershed moment. Capitalism has created enormous wealth in its time. Technology has been advanced to incredible heights, in part by the greed and fear-driven impetus of ultra-competitive capitalism. The wealth is concentrated now in the hands of a small percentage of our global population and far too much of the valuable technologies developed are used to create weaponry that now threaten to engulf the entire world in war.

We need to draw down the wealth from the places where it has pooled and hoarded by those with an obsessive need for it without using it to any beneficial purpose. Speculators now endlessly move this useless wealth here and there to no positive effect except to aggrandize themselves. The one percent sit on their wealth unwilling to share it as their entire game plan that gave them pleasure was to see the noughts grow in their accounts, never the good they could do with it.

Casino Capitalism and the Money-Junkies who run it have reached a surreal position with the coming of Covid-19 whereby even their dreams of inheriting the riches of Croesus have been exceeded tenfold. Surely they have some insight now into their rabid addictions? Surely they can see the utterly insane direction Mankind has taken and the cul-de-sac that we are rapidly traveling down?

A universal basic income would be the first step for us all in gaining some slight purchase on the sane world we need to work toward, making our way back from the brink of the utter madness that awaits us.

Then governmental policy of the richest nations must shift from requiring ever more economic growth to the creation of low maintenance societies where buying less and being more take priority. We would need progressively more Planet Earths to feed an insatiable appetite for product. With only around 200 years since the Industrial Revolution and a possible 6,000,000,000 years of potential life possible on our world the idea we can keep buying ever more just to fund ever more of everything is ridiculous on its face. We must change how we do things. The only question is when do we start.

This is the time to start. We have already left beginning the journey we must make so very late.

Only through being more social, more giving in our general ethos can we begin the journey we must make.

The alternative doesn’t bear thinking about. Look at where we are now. Think what will be in even 100 years from now. Then think of a 1000 if you can. 6,000,000,000, the years until Nova are impossible to visualize except our world as a grey ball with everyone having everything and being perfectly miserable, all natural life lost, every culture transformed from its native state into the worst aspect of western life epitomized by the hyper-intense merchandizing world of the USA.

If we don’t start socializing wealth and technology we will career ever forward to the dystopia that awaits us.

Stop. Reverse course before it becomes to late and all is lost as we start an unstoppable descent into that grey abyss.

More Socialism now. By consent. From the bottom up and top down.

Lead Low Maintenance Lifestyles as an example. Buy less and be more. Imbue our lives with Voluntary Simplicity.

And be Socialist in all we say and do.

It can happen with consent on all sides.

We can do this. We can lead by example.

And in so doing encourage all others to follow us in these first footsteps to new and better world.