The New Socialism - Wilberg on Wednesday

Anti-War Anti-Wage

Anti-Waste

Anti-McWork

Anti-McWorld

For Spiritual Individualism

For Deep Values not Brand Values

For Total Pacifism and Non-Violence

For a Revolution in Human Relations

For the Re-ensoulment of Life and Science

For Free Creative Labour not Wage Slavery

For Equal Remuneration of all forms of Labour

For an End to the Medicalisation of Social Dis-ease

For Free Associations in Cooperative Enterprises

For the Global Levelling of Living Standards

For Total Respect towards all Life Species

For Quality of Life not Quantity of Profit

“From Each According to their Ability, To Each according to their Need.”

Karl Marx

The New Socialism is ‘anti-world’ – against the sham global ‘world’ of corporate capitalism – a ‘McWorld’ that turns everything of spiritual value in the human soul into a commodity.

The New Socialism is also anti-wage and anti-work. For ‘work’ in capitalism is neither creative nor fulfilling. Instead it is wage-slavery and it is also waste manufactured in the name of economic growth – the waste of both natural resources and creative human potentials in the overproduction of near identical and often entirely unnecessary consumer products.

The New Socialism is anti-waste and anti-war, war being itself the waste of human and non-human life and the waste of economic and natural resources for the manufacture and marketing of military hardware - all in the service of competition for those resources and for economic markets. 

The New Socialism is thus also anti-weaponry – in particular all those Weapons of Mass Destruction hypocritically monopolised by the major capitalist world powers. The destruction of other life species and the endangerment of the human species itself is conducted by global capitalism in the name of world economic progress. Thus today it would seem inconceivable for a politician, political party or movement to advocate a retreat from this ‘progress’ - from economic growth, employment, individual consumption and ‘living standards’ in the industrialised capitalist world. Yet this is precisely what is required to overcome the vast intra- and international inequalities of wealth and living standards generated by global capitalism, and to create genuine quality of life for all those whose lives are dominated by uncreative work compensated only by wasteful consumption.

The New Socialism is anti-world, anti-war, anti-waste, anti-wage, anti-work and therefore also anti-worship. For the only ‘god’ that capitalist culture recognises is Mammon – the god of quantitative economic value. Its only true commandment is to worship that god by any and all means possible – up to and including the total devaluation of all authentic spiritual values, the total degradation of the human being, and the total ecological devastation of the earth. But the most important form of worship that capitalism demands is ‘work’ or ‘employment’ – in other words wage slavery. Hence its greatest religious sin is ‘non-employment’ or ‘economic inactivity’. In a sick world, sickness and disability have become forms of bodily protest against spiritually debilitating work. The human body has become the principal 'conscientious objector' to all that is soul-destroying in our society - hence the endless attempt to wage war on illness through new drugs, genetic manipulation and medical technologies rather than understanding its social meaning.

The New Socialism recognises that what is religiously promoted as 'freedom' and 'democracy' by the champions of global capitalism disguises outright economic totalitarianism - not only the subordination of politics and politicians to the economics of the market but the daily subordination of individual wage- and salary-slaves to their executive autocrats and to the totally undemocratic corporate cults and dictatorships they are forced to labour for. As for 'freedom of expression' or even 'freedom to protest', this disguises the outright censorship and brainwashing brought about by corporate media monopolies and the corporate interests they serve - not least the military-industrial complex of U.S. global imperialism with its intrinsic investment in war and in the expansion of U.S. economic and cultural totalitarianism.