Proscription of Labour groups seeking to overthrow capitalism

 Proscription!

Not a commonly used word and one that's unexpected in Labour circles where debate and discourse have always been part of the Party's life.

Alliance for Workers Liberty and Socialist Appeal.

As they stand they don't belong in a British political party that seeks to put its aims into practise through Parliament, local councils and similar democratic institutions. Neither of these two groups' stated aims fit well with this democratic, election based aim of the Labour party.

They both want to 'overthrow' capitalism. One of these groups wants to achieve this through methods advocated by Lenin and Trotsky. This is violent revolution. This is not compatible with the Labour party's aims.

My interpretation of Labour's socialist left is that socialism would be brought in after winning an election where there was a clear mandate for socialist policies and measures.

One of the groups in question is openly Marxist which is fair enough (Marx, with a touch of Hegal, got me good marks as a student).

Marx's prediction was capitalism would undergo a series of ever worsening crises until it eventually collapsed to be replaced by a socialist system.

I believe the British economy is at this point of a total collapse. When this happens the government will have no choice but to take over the running of the whole economy.

There's no other choice.

Depending on what the government does, we'll either get socialism as Marx predicted for a while, or we'll get fascism for a longer period.

This probably depends on who wins the next election.

Western democracy and electioneering in particular is now all about political marketing.

And political marketing communication.

Heuristic soundbites are a big part of electioneering.

I'm afraid to say Labour lag a long way behind the Conservatives in political marketing communication skills.

Just look at the website landing pages:

Labour, "Meet Keir Starmer" why?

Conservative "Build back better" a power-packed lie.

Labour, "Stronger together" a meaningless phrase.

Conservative, "levelling up" another clever lie.

Sorry but I don't think Labour will win the next election, even though almost everybody, even the few, are better off with Labour, and almost everybody, even the few, are worse off with the Tories.

Tories, levelling down Britain since 1689.

Labour, for the many as well as the Few.