>>2897680Wrong. Bourgeois organizations are not tolerated, as they are obstacles that must be destroyed; they stand in the way of overthrowing the bourgeois state to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. The United Kingdom should not rely on imports; instead, it should utilize state-owned enterprises and state capitalism to facilitate the seizure of the means of production, which must be nationalized to enable the socialization of the economy. Promoting job security, wage equalization, and the elimination of all forms of precarious labor, while expanding labor rights and mandating unionization for all workers—will dispel the prejudices held by the masses.
A slogan you could use in your country to attract the lumpenproletariat and other workers would be: repeal and modify laws that prevent the radicalization of unions in order to intensify the class struggle; create a workers' statistical commission with mandatory members of workers without bourgeois or apolitical technocrats to calculate workers' wages according to the price of food and necessities so that inflation does not affect workers; abolish indirect taxes linked to working-class consumption so that these workers begin to lose superstitions of the state; judicial democratization of lawyers for the working class; forced unionization of the working population; equalization of unions to avoid traitors conspiring and selling themselves to the bourgeoisie without solidarity with their class in the leadership of these unions; solidarity in judicial judgments of unpaid wages along with any type of further intensified exploitation; defend the labor rights of immigrant workers with compensation for the victims and severe punishment for the capitalist even if the victims say it is voluntary and they do not have class consciousness to fight for their labor rights; defending the guarantee of public employment is also good.
Nationalizations without compensation, along with various actions to remove the role of profit in the needs of the population and increase public participation, should always be discussed. Don't forget to always talk about nationalizing all private banks. As much as possible, the country must avoid depending on raw materials from abroad for energy (sovereignty in food, energy, financial and industrial production must be paramount to avoid dependence on imperialism). Always connect everything to why private property must be abolished to radicalize the masses so they don't remain in a distant abstraction and irritate the bourgeoisie with the diminishing profits extracted from them, leading the bourgeois state to crises due to the intensification of class struggle. Advocate for the wages of immigrant workers to be as high as those of native workers, with compensation for any disregard for this by punishing the capitalist, and equalization so that the wages of all workers are as high as those of state-owned companies.
Furthermore, state-owned companies can be directed to supply the domestic market with cheap goods, competing with private companies and bankrupting them so they can be nationalized, occupied, collectivized, and socialized. This will further reduce the profits of capitalists, bringing chaos to the bourgeois state. Of course, the defense of acquiring economic sovereignty must be made even if it means more suffering and blackmail from capitalists punishing workers, but as a country acquires more economic sovereignty, the blackmail of sanctions or schemes that capitalists will attempt will have less effect.
Just because the bourgeoisie manages the bourgeois state in a way you dislike, it does not mean we should tolerate fantasies about some imaginary past capitalism or grant "freedom" to private property. Capitalist competition inevitably leads to monopolization and consolidation; seeking to individualize private property is a reactionary desire to turn back the clock. The scientific socialist position is to move forward by nationalizing everything and democratizing these assets, allowing the masses to participate in the economy rather than leaving decisions about their management to capitalists and their agents behind closed doors.
As the intensification of finance capital and the exploitation of workers progress, reactionary sentiments will rise whenever the masses question the current social order; the bourgeoisie is then compelled to provide a response that does not challenge the bourgeois class itself. This phenomenon is occurring not only in the United Kingdom but across the European Union and the entire world.
>>2897704Wrong. A party could only partially address some of the points I made; this party would be better than libertarians, who are lackeys of finance capital. A key point a party must have is anti-imperialism. This means being against the EU, against NATO, against any foreign funding, arms sales, loans, and aid for the maintenance of puppets of imperialist capitalism so that they collapse, no matter how many workers die or suffer at the hands of some other capitalist demonized by their bourgeois media. This means the destruction of Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and other countries integrated with imperialist capitalist hegemony.
Let's look at party programs in your country then, starting with the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist:
<The communist party of the British working class, the CPBML, exists for the complete overthrow of capitalism and its replacement by working-class control and the building of socialism.[…]
<We study to understand Britain and the world so as to achieve working-class control.
<Foundations, 12 November 2024https://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/foundations-2024Based on what is written here, it has already earned positive points in relation to what I wrote above about libertarians.
<Keep out of wars<Our class should get Britain out of NATO, an aggressive alliance which with its partner bloc the EU aims to add to US economic and political advantage. But we do not support any rival bloc. Some have said support the EU against US imperialism. Some say support Russia or China, or both, against US imperialism. But no good can come from backing one bloc against another.
<The working class’s main enemy is at home. Workers face a single ruling class which has a single aim – to stay in power. It seeks to maximise that power to exploit and profit from workers’ labour. All its policies, domestic and foreign, are geared to that one aim. Peace, human welfare, our environment, mean nothing to them.
<NATO tells us that other countries across the world are our enemy. It blames Iran for inflation here, blames Russia for soaring energy prices here, and blames China for deindustrialisation here. But our difficulties here are home grown, their source the capitalist class. Of course, we have to be on our guard against all threats to Britain, all hostile acts, from whatever quarter.
<Sovereign nations have the right to defend themselves. But capitalist governments and other bodies claiming to speak on workers’ behalf routinely abuse this right for their own ends, to conduct wars of aggression.
<NATO, led by the US and British governments, increasingly intervenes in other peoples’ wars. The government, with “loyal” opposition support, drags us into more and more foreign wars, none of which is about the defence of our country. Interference only makes things worse. We should not import foreign conflicts to our streets, our communities and our trade unions. We are for the defence of Britain and to that end we must unite here. Our working class should get on with the job of fighting for wages and conditions. Our trade union movement can strengthen the peace movement in its struggles, but the demand for peace must be wider than that – embracing all of the working class whether currently in dispute or not.
<Britain is a major funder of the war in Ukraine, blocking diplomacy and leading every reckless escalation. NATO’s aggressive interference encouraged the Ukraine government into launching civil war from 2014. NATO quite deliberately provoked Russia, whose expansionist government was goaded into invading Ukraine. The resultant trench warfare stalemate risks escalations, such as the USA looking to locate nuclear weapons to its base at RAF Lakenheath for the first time since 2008. The USA can only send them here because successive British governments have been so compliant. The British government and the loyal opposition parties are happy to encourage and subsidise the supply of weapons from British arms manufacturers which fuel the continued destruction of Ukraine. Growing calls by British workers for peace and for getting US bases and troops off our soil must logically and surely lead to calls to leave NATO.
<However, some unions with members working in the defence industries have supported pro-war resolutions at the TUC and the STUC, in the mistaken belief that supporting the war in Ukraine is supporting those members. The GMB motion passed by the TUC in 2023 called for continued “financial and practical aid from the UK to Ukraine”. This was a call to send ever more arms to Ukraine. We need a defence industry for Britain, for defending our independence, not arms for Ukraine.
<The British and US governments have regularly opposed ceasefires and opposed the peaceful resolution of conflicts, as when they block the peaceful reunification of Taiwan with China. We oppose US and NATO interference in other people’s disputes. We serve no foreign power.
<Taking Charge - Tasks To Be Done, 25 October 2024https://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/taking-charge-tasks-be-done#KeepMore positive points following the anti-imperialist principle unlike you.
Now I will take another party in the United Kingdom as the Communist Party of Britain:
<Democracy and popular sovereignty<In modern capitalist society, it is the interests of monopoly finance capital which predominate, regardless of proclamations about the sovereignty of the people or of parliament.
<The electoral franchise and other democratic rights are subverted by huge inequalities in wealth and power between different classes and sections of the population. Politicians and political parties are bought or intimidated by big business and large sections of the mass media which pursue a pro-capitalist agenda. In Britain, the electoral system is mostly rigged against small, new or left-wing parties, while elected parliaments can be marginalised or dissolved.
<The European Union represents a new model whereby monopoly capital can circumvent democratic representation and accountability. The EU parliament is elected by constituencies so large as to break any meaningful organic link between electors and representatives. It has no power to initiate or unilaterally amend legislation. The fundamental capitalist economic and political character of the EU is set in constitutional concrete. Any real sovereignty is shared between unelected and unaccountable bodies – the Council of Ministers, the EU Commission, the European Central Bank and the EU Court of Justice.
<The essence of popular sovereignty, on the other hand, is that the democratic will of the people should prevail over the vested interests of a powerful minority and their state apparatus. This revolutionary concept originated in the English Revolution, with the Levellers and the soldiers’ parliament, and in the French Revolution with its constituent assembly and constitution. It was also seen in the Paris Commune of 1871, in the workers’, peasants’ and soldiers’ soviets (councils) of the 1905 and 1917 Russian revolutions, and in all mass movements against exploitation and oppression.
<In Britain, the struggle for popular sovereignty has expressed itself recently in the mass movement against imperialist war, in the 2016 referendum vote to reassert popular sovereignty against EU membership and in broad-based campaigns led by trades unions, local trades councils and the People’s Assembly Against Austerity to defend jobs, pensions, benefits and public services. But popular sovereignty will only prevail when state power is taken out of the hands of the capitalist class by the working class and its allies, whose interests represent those of the people and society in general.
<This lays the basis for the active involvement of the people in all aspects of decision-making. Such mass participation is the surest guarantee that democratic rights will be enormously more extensive and more real in a socialist society, free from the distortions of monopoly capital’s wealth and power.[…]
<Funding the Left-Wing Programme<Such an ambitious range of economic, social and cultural policies will have to be financed through a more progressive tax regime and revised public spending priorities. The LWP might therefore include policies to:
<Increase tax rates on higher rates of income.<Levy an annual wealth tax on the richest section of the population.Impose a ‘Robin Hood’ tax on City financial transactions.
Increase the rate of corporation tax on the profits of large companies.
<Place a windfall tax on monopoly profits in specific industries as necessary.<Close all tax havens under British jurisdiction.<Develop more effective mechanisms to tackle tax avoidance and evasion by transnational companies and wealthy individuals.<Cut or abolish VAT on essential goods and services.<Replace the council tax with local income, wealth, land and property taxes based clearly on the ability to pay.<Renegotiate and, where appropriate, cancel Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts in order to eliminate excessive corporate profiteering.<Cut British military spending and end all state subsidies for armaments exports. <Control movements of capital in and out of Britain.
<Over time, as inequalities in income and wealth are eroded, economic growth would expand the basis for increased tax revenues.[…]
<An independent foreign and defence policy <In the international arena, the aim of the LWP must be for Britain to pursue its own foreign policy, independent of the United States and the EU.
<Implementing the domestic and international policies of the LWP would have to mean no submission to the treaties, laws, directives or institutions of the EU and its ‘single European market’. New bilateral and multilateral agreements would need to be negotiated for mutually beneficial cooperation with European and other countries. In the meantime, and as an independent state, Britain should also reject all attempts by the EU or Council of Europe to equate Communism with the ideology, policies or crimes of fascism and to suppress communist and socialist organisations on that basis.[…]
<Enhancing the United Nations and its associated institutions as agencies for progress will depend on strengthening working-class and anti-imperialist forces at national level. Making the permanent membership of the UN Security Council more representative of the world’s peoples, with states such as China retaining their veto, would provide some counter-balance to the abuse and manipulation of the UN and member states by the imperialist powers.[…]
<Britain should retain military forces that are sufficient to deter aggression and to participate in humanitarian activities at home and abroad, in strict compliance with international law.
<Clearly, the subservient alliance with US imperialism, including collusion to violate fundamental human rights and international law, would have to cease immediately. All British involvement in military invasions and occupations of other people’s countries must also end, as should diplomatic support and arms exports to repressive regimes. The closure of all British military bases overseas will prevent their future use by British, US and NATO forces for aggressive purposes. Any further enlargement of NATO should be opposed. Britain should promote NATO’s dissolution while withdrawing from it at the earliest opportunity. In the absence of any significant progress towards creating an independent, sovereign Palestinian state on the basis of UN resolutions, alongside a secure Israel, the British government should pursue unilateral and multilateral sanctions against the Israeli state and its institutions until real progress is made.
<Britain’s Road to Socialismhttps://communistparty.org.uk/publications/britains-road-to-socialism/From what I've read here, there are several positive points that outweigh your libertarianism lie. If I read more, there will probably be more positive points, because I focused on the writing related to having an anti-imperialist position, which is of paramount importance before other important principled points when analyzing a party.
Other workers' parties in your country probably have positive points on my list when I'm analyzing political parties, unlike your stubbornness in wanting to be ignorant, your resentment towards the workers of your own country, and your defeatist resignation to imperialist capitalism (for me, I would accept the death of all the workers in my country rather than surrender to the ignorant middle class, lackeys of financial capital in my country, who pretend to be "rebellious" in search of bourgeois "freedom").