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.
