YEA -- TH'GOOD OL' DAYS!!! MY ARSE.

         

            It is difficult to keep your cool when you hear some of the crap that pours from the mouths of our politicians. One such bout of verbal diarrhoea came recently from the Shadow Business Secretary, Chuka Umunna. Among this splurge of meaningless words was the statement, “What we need is a more responsible and better capitalism,” This man believes that somehow good capitalism has lost its way over the last 30 years or so. You know the kind of capitalism he is talking about, the sort that always pays its workers a good living wage, always gives them the best of working conditions and always adheres to the best possible health and safety regulations. Like the coal mine owners of the past for example. This so called politician, obviously is oblivious of working class struggle over the years of the good old capitalism days. Lock-outs, mass dismissals, wage cuts and atrocious working conditions, risking life and limb, all for the benefit of the good capitalist. For the benefit of this ignorant individual, there never has been an era of the good capitalism. Capitalism is a system of exploitation, a system of getting the many to work as hard as possible for a little as possible to enrich the few. Those, who like the Mr. Chuka Umunna, who somehow hold this totally irrational belief that, capitalism is a benevolent system that through a few greedy individuals has been tainted, should read their history. Not the history of this half-wit prince marrying this other equally half-witted princess by arrangement of their power hungry parents in the hope of safeguarding the lands they had stolen. Rather he should have a look at the miners strike and general strike of 1926, the 40 hour strike of 1919, and the brutal repression of both, or perhaps the dock strike of 1911 in which two Liverpool strikers were shot dead by the troops on the streets of Liverpool. This is the capitalism of old, the “good old days”, that Mr Chuka Umunna hungers after, the good capitalism of poverty wages, long hours and working conditions that caused early death. Each time one of these idiots opens their big mouth to vent an empty brain, it reinforces my belief in anarchism as the only hope for humanity.

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