The revisionist whores of the genocidal Labour Party, the British Communist Party of Britain have come out for degrowth.
Capitalism depends on continued growth, without which it would collapse.( Morning Star, What should we do about ‘degrowth’?, August 26, 2024)
If the productive forces collapse as they are being deliberately sabotaged (by the imperialist-bourgeoisie no less) this “Communist” is right. Capitalism will collapse.
Into barbarism
Increasingly, terms like “ecosocialism” and “degrowth communism” form a focus for debate, both as objectives and as to ways of securing them. One argument is the need for a shift, in the so-called global North to “net zero capital formation” focused on “replacement investment” to deliver qualitative advances in production with reduced environmental impacts. This would need to be coupled with a reversal of dependency and “unequal exchange” whereby the “advanced economies” of capitalism’s metropolitan heartlands rely on a large net appropriation of value (including food, raw materials, and people) from the rest of the world, which currently suffers the worst environmental consequences of capitalist accumulation.(Ibid)
The CPGB – Revisionist Before Stalin Died
The Communist Party of Great Britain has the dubious “honour” of being revisionist before even Stalin died and Krushchev gave his “Secret Speech” in 1956.
The 1951 British Road to Socialism was the party programme of the CPGB. Two years before Stalin’s death the CPGB came out as revisionist. Ignoring the teachings laid out Marx’s Civil War in France and Lenin’s State and Revolution the CPGB set about turning themselves into a whore appendage of the Labour Party insisting that this “British Road” could be taken via the parliamentary way.
The British Road to Socialism was a departure from the revolutionary line of the international communist movement at the time, and a controversial document from its inception, enshrining as it did the anti-Marxist and anti-Leninist notion of British exceptionalism, of Britain being sufficiently ‘mature and developed’ as to be able to embark upon a non-revolutionary road to the working class gaining state power. That road could and would be possible, asserted the CPGB in its BRS, not through a process of conflict with the British imperial class, which would be ‘abhorrent’ to the British working class and its ‘traditions’, but rather via the peaceful election of a coalition of Communist and Labour MPs who would use Parliament as a platform for progressive reforms to bring about socialism.(The Communists, Britain’s Road To Socialism?, p12)
Such a pathetically corrupt party could not last and indeed when Communism suffered a serious setback with the collapse of the Soviet Union, itself a product of capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union following Kruschchevs 1956 Secret Speech then the Kosygin Reforms of 1965 which returned the market to the economy, hiring and firing and dismantled the Central Planning system as a “Stalinist holdover”. (Read Bill Blands, Restoration of Capitalism in the USSR book for full details).
By the time revisionism had rotted out the spirit, heart and economy of the Soviet Union the CPGB collapsed alongside in perhaps one of the most pathetic entries of Communism in history.
The CPGB’s final version of Britain’s Road to Socialism was published just before its forty-first congress in 1989 when, amidst the counter-revolutions in the European people’s democracies and in the USSR itself, the ‘Eurocommunist’ faction of the party, grouped around its magazine Marxism Today, dissolved the party, sinking under the weight of its increasing burden of revisionism and capitulation to the pressures of imperialism, and passed a resolution declaring that ‘Communism was a mistake of historic proportions’. It was a sad and sorry spectacle, but a logical conclusion to the abandonment of the practice and theory of class struggle and Marxist-Leninist analysis. (ibid p19)
Green Hegemony – From Communism to the Catholic Church
You have to give it to imperialists. When the Rockefellers/Club of Rome began gunning for Green hegemony in order to roll back classes themselves they were able to infiltrate every aspect of society.
From Communists to the Anglo and Catholic Church!
Prince Phillip was successful in uniting the worlds religions behind green quackery.
“In 1986 he held his first conference on this front in Assisi, Italy. It was the 25th anniversary of the WWF, and Philip brought together representatives of five of the world’s religions to form a WWF sub-group – the Network on Conservation and Religion. The attendees agreed to scour their sacred texts for eco-sounding passages, to undertake environmental actions within their respective congregations, and to meet again in ten years’ time. The next major meeting was in May 1995 at Windsor Castle, with Philip presiding; only now there were nine religions represented. Between 1986 and 1995 over one hundred thousand eco-religious events had been organized by groups represented at the first conference. These eco-actions ranged from mere Sunday outings in the woods to the creation of entire college campuses dedicated to enviro-theology. Philip helped organize another meeting of the group (since renamed Alliance of Religions and Conservation and now representing 11 religious organizations with a combined flock of 3 billion followers) in 1998 at Lamsbeth Palace, with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of the World Bank acting as co-chairmen.”(ibid)
The Church of England is not separate from the monarchy, the ruling monarch being the “Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England”. The Head of State is also the Head of the COE. It’s entirely unsurprising then that the COE is pushing green politics too.
“An even greener faction appears to be waiting in the wings of the Church of England and within English Christianity generally. In 1998 Evangelical Environment Network UK issued a two-page “Declaration” commencing:
“As followers of Jesus Christ, committed to the full authority of the Scriptures, and aware of the ways we have degraded creation, we believe that biblical faith is essential to our ecological problems.”
“The “Declaration” goes on to denounce “cultural degradation”, overpopulation, and pollution as sins for which there must be repentance. It contains many other stanzas of eco-Christian gobbledygook that would make even a street-corner Bible-thumper shake his head in bewilderment. The manifesto was, nevertheless, signed by 89 prominent Brits, including 15 professors of religious education and over 20 high-ranking members of the Church of England.…
“The stakes here are huge. There are over 110 Anglican Bishops, so the nine who signed must be viewed currently as only a minority radical eco-faction within the larger Church, albeit a growing minority and one with the evident blessing of the House of Windsor-Mountbatten. Should this faction come to fully dominate the Synod, an enormous resource will be handed over to the cause of eco-fascism..”(ibid)
The Catholic Church was also won over to condemning developing nations to poverty inThe Encylical Letter of Pope Francis Laudato Si “care for our common home”. A document also filled with eco-Christian gobbeldegook and no doubt written by some World Economic Forum, DAVOS or some other elite organisation filled with disgusting parasites.(The Scientific Killers Vol II: Depopulation, Genocide and The Black Hand Of Malthus. An Energy Policy, Yes, But For Which Class?)
Examined in detail by Ian Plimer in Heaven and Hell: The Pope Condemns the Poor To Eternal Poverty.
A New Peasant Class Arising
The new era will be of a new peasantry: the peasants tracked and accounted for their “carbon consumption” whilst the imperialist bourgeoisie role by like Lords of the manor in cars and private jets because they “paid their carbon offsets”. A good deal of the cosmopolitan ruling class in Britain never visit anywhere other than London.
New forms of social control by digital and programmable currency ledgers will punish you if you eat too much meat or take a train too far.
Communists I can understand because
A) It takes years to study Marxism-Leninism (most of whom don’t) which is why The British Communist Party still follows a Krushchevite line and are slaves of the genocidal Labour Party
B)they are mostly drawn from the unproductive Labour aristocracy, Professional Managerial Class or petite-bourgeoisie in imperialist society so they’re dripping with craven slavishness to bourgeois respectability and booj social-mores and don’t want to fart at the dinner table.
But it is impressive how they manage to capture institutions like Catholic Church… Given Christian theology and teachings of Earth being destroyed and a new one created.
Like if your holy book states
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Revelation 21:1)
Why on earth would you care about “climate change” when this is how you believe human history ends?
