In the miasma of Brave New World euphoria following the defeat of European fascism, the members and fellow travellers of the Communist Party across the continent were ordered to leave the Party and join more electable parties, and continue their work under cover.
The near-destruction of European society (except in Britain) was a godsend for Marxists. Here was a tabula rasa! Lenin's dream! They grasped the opportunity with both hands and to this day they have not loosened their grip.
In the east, Stalin had already established his dictatorship of fear and loathing. Western Europe posed more problems, not being a unified state, but there was another way, achievable in the longer term.
A number of socialist monsters were brought to birth in the ashes of Europe. One was the EU. Its founding nations were all on their knees emotionally, culturally, economically. They needed each other, and they needed peace. They bound each other into a union to supply, by their common efforts, their salvation, and their peoples welcomed the peace of mind it brought. Those who would govern it would always and in every circumstance be ‘anti-fascists’, that is, from the Left. Job done. Or at least, given a flying start.
All the opposition there has ever been within the EU to the onward march of the The Project, has come from the Right. Why would that be, I wonder?
Britain was a different case. Victor, not vanquished, the people very bloodied but quite unbowed. The people of Britain would have no truck with The Project for the moment. Why would they want to bind themselves to a union of the nations they had fought and defeated, at terrible cost? No, a different strategy would be required.
The people would have to be taught, slowly, that they need to be part of The Project. But that would also have to come later. The means to that end would be the destruction of the old education system which had engendered independent, un-Socialist thinking and the training of a governing class which could rule three quarters of the planet. And that class, conservative in every sense, must itself be destroyed and the soil from which it arose dug over with salt.
The ruling class is the enemy. The proletariat must be taught this, but subtly, slowly. It shall be done by the excision of the group memory of genuinely high standards, by the deriding of all cultural pursuits beloved of the educated classes, and by the structuring of the ‘educational’ process so that all shall attain certain defined ‘heights’ (actually unbelievably low levels) of state-defined ‘achievement’. Then all shall say ‘I am as qualified as you are. I am entitled to what you have. You are in my way, toff.’
The private schools (and, it goes without saying, the church schools which will be vilified and undermined in ways designed to fit their special nature) will, in due course, be prohibited by one means or another.
Thus all will be taught only what the state prescribes. They will know nothing else. They will believe nothing else. Their horizons and desires will be defined by the state in compliance with Socialist dogma which will be called ‘progressive politics to benefit the many, not the few’. Thus we will determine their behaviour and hence their compliance with the state’s requirements in all respects.
Malign as the EU has become, the most insidious post-war development in Europe has been the British Labour Party's education strategy since Gramsci's commissars donned sheep’s clothing and took control of schools and colleges including most but not all university departments.
Over decades, they have determinedly ignored, defied, undermined or otherwise wrecked the philosophies, objectives and proposed strategies of successive governments who, susceptible to dismissal by a dissatisfied electorate, have tried to hold them back from their worst excesses.
They have trampled on, twisted and subverted the public’s desire for education for children and young adults, and have indoctrinated with Socialist philosophy all those not fortunate enough to have parents who could afford to buy a liberal education outside the State’s monopoly system. Parents and institutions who would not conform have been raged at and vilified.
What everyone except themselves saw as education, They damned as the oppression of the proletariat by the ruling class who needed slaves for their capitalist machine, whose product was comfort for 'the few' and sod the rest.
Over time, the evil machinery of the ‘progressive forces’ has, as intended, produced a lumpenproletariat: millions of functionally illiterate, politically and culturally blinded oiks who have been taught to have supreme confidence in their own worth and to feel enormous pride in their pathetic, puny 'achievements' as measured by contemptibly easy ‘tests’ and which are risible compared with those of schoolchildren in comparable countries and non-state education.
Pupils… the very word is outlawed as redolent of the middle class and their private schools… pupils leave school and are admitted to university unable – having been neither required nor taught – to speak or write their own language.
They have been told that their own culture is not for the likes of them, that the culture of almost any other society is superior and must be learned and appreciated. All shall have drums, but violins are for the hated capitalist class.
Thus culture is divided into ‘street’ and ‘high’. 'Street culture', with its roots in the drug-destroyed slums of Kingston, Jamaica, and Chicago South Side, is approved, while ‘high culture' is made mysterious and inaccessible to the proles who have no idea what goes on behind its walls. It is made affordable to a privileged few who are, of course, maligned and threatened because, by maintaining high standards in instrumental musicianship, formal singing, dance, theatre and the traditional plastic arts, they are working against the State’s policy of ‘inclusivity’ by which approval is granted only to what is simple enough to be practised by all.
Socialism has ensured that high culture has become the preserve of an elite who are condemned as ‘the few’, the enemy of ‘the many’.
Schoolchildren (and undergraduates) are taught that British history is a nasty tale of undiluted wickedness. History is the Levellers, Cromwell, Victorian hypocrisy, colonialism, racism, capitalism, the slave trade, the Holocaust, Hitler. School history is a highly political story of oppression by the British ruling class, in different times and places, and of societies being liberated or reformed by a few good people: ‘progressive’ thinkers, leaders of the historically inevitable march towards Utopia in which all shall have… equality in everything. They have been taught to be ashamed of their nationality and its history. The approved posture is the cringe.
Never having been stretched intellectually, lest they fail at something, they are unable to think. So they do not think about anything much, beyond short term gratification of their needs and wishes, and about the appearance and liaisons of the approved, half-clothed, plebeian heroes whose images flood the pages of cheap magazines, and about how to emulate them, which they are taught to do in their school music and drama classes where Chekhov is a funny foreign word, Amy is an icon of musical achievement and Fame is the Aim.
They know all about their ‘rights’ having been fully briefed by the commissars (and by their parents who themselves were trained by the commissars’ predecessors) but are disinclined to think about or choose who governs them and how, because ‘politics is nothing to do with me’ and ‘they’re all the same, innit,’ and ‘nah, I don’ vote’.
And so, unsurprisingly, millions of unemployables are maintained in a half-depressed, idle and obese condition, at the State's expense, while the work they could and should be doing has to be undertaken by imported foreign workers or exported to other countries to be done by other foreign workers who can read, write, speak - and work - and who are getting rich at our expense. (And yes, I do know the argument that that immigrant labour and exported manufacture make us better off. Materially.)
All the while, our kindly government facilitates the provision of plenty of bread and circuses for the increasing millions of anaesthetised non-workers. The bakers and circus clowns are invited to Government soirees…
But there is hope.
The incoming Conservative government, notably in the person of the excellent Mr Gove, offers deliverance from the cultural desert which is Labour ‘education’ with its holding pens for children in which none may have prizes unless all have prizes and none shall be educated lest they get above themselves – and above others.
The long nightmare may soon be over, please God. Children’s education will once more be for the sake of the children and the actual good of society rather than merely a step towards the accomplishment of the failed, Socialist, twin-fantasies of Everyman as Loser and Everyman as Vassal.
We shall be permitted once more to envisage the possibility of education for its true and traditional purpose which is, by giving them all that we have learned, by handing on to them the treasures of our civilisation, and by teaching them to think, to bring the best out of individuals so that they will be able to flourish more than we have, to make the most of their potential and live full and happy lives and do good in the society they inherit from us and which they will, in their own turn, hand to their children.
Once again, one can hope that children will be taught to speak clearly and to write intelligibly so that they will be able to describe themselves to themselves and to each other; to understand, through language, their identity and their history; to tell each other stories of who they are, where they came from and where they are going.
We may, yet again, produce accomplished people including many who are fit to lead in many walks of life.
Do I sound a little old-fashioned to you? Good.
Education is the greatest of the goods which government must enable and safeguard, after the essentials of safety, shelter and food.
The Labour Party and its trade union proprietors are violently against education. They regard schooling as a social engineering process and no more, which is precisely why Labour 'education’ fails as education. They have replaced education with a process of shaping the minds of children and young adults to think like socialists and accept government diktats.
That's it. That is the whole agenda.
Language is debased as deliberate policy in order to promote ‘equality’ and ‘inclusivity’: an exotic (lit.) patois is ‘as good as’ received pronunciation or grammatically correct and syntactically transparent English.
Labour bastards. In Government, in Opposition, in institutions of higher education, in universities, in schools. Bastards, all. Fuck them.
They have deprived millions of our people, our children and grandchildren, of the greatest riches they could possibly have: the ability to think and explore thought; their intellectual and cultural inheritance; the possibility of self-respect and the deserved respect of others; the possibility of ambition achieved, of contentment.
Through their calculated destruction of education they have removed from generations of the British people the wherewithal to make a better life for themselves and for others. They have imposed their misbegotten ‘equality’ as the primary objective of every single collective and personal endeavour and our society is declining as a result.
THAT was the only historically inevitable attribute of their fantasy which is no more than that: a Utopian fantasy.
Socialists, in the Labour Party, in the education 'trade unions', in the universities and teacher training establishments, in government education departments, have destroyed what Hitler could not destroy: Britain's consciousness and memory of itself.
Now, the Socialist EU governs us, and we neither know nor care.
Utter, utter bastards. Fuck them. And, oh dear God, especially the fucking NUT.