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and the end of class-based politics

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The author

Robert Corfe’s reputation is already established in this country and further afield as the founder of New Socialism, a movement established for the regeneration of the Labour Party and other democratic parliamentary bodies throughout the world. This is his first in a series of four books on the theory and practice of New Socialism, and concentrates on the issue of rebuilding the membership of leading left of centre parties. After identifying the mismatch between new society and old ideas, he argues how important it is as a first step in reinvigorating political life to up-date the principles and thinking of the Labour Party. He shows clearly how the (mostly hidden) influence of Marx is now frustrating the achievement of a Socialist society. He then describes the type of membership which is desirable for the future, and the need to draw on the knowledge and expertise of the well-established. In the penultimate section, he discusses the question of social ethics, and how the churches may be drawn in to support the cause; before concluding with three chapters addressing some urgent issues of our time.

Is Socialism to have a future? Only through adopting the principles & practices of New Socialism – so argues the author of this book.

Socialism today means people power through the implementation of effective democratic mechanisms.

The author demonstrates clearly that if the means of production, distribution & exchange are to be transferred directly into the hands of the people, then this can only be realised through the repudiation of Marxist thought patterns.

New Socialism calls not for class war but for inter-class cooperation necessary in the great task of calling on essential expertise in achieving practical reforms for humankind at home & throughout the world.

This book is a remarkable & stimulating read by one of the most innovative & profound Socialist thinkers of the present time.

This is Robert Corfe’s fourth book elaborating on the theory and practice of New Socialism but this volume serves, perhaps, as the best introduction to the meaning of the Socialism of the future.

More about this book -

The Labour Party and Socialism worldwide can only hope to reverse their catastrophic membership decline and failing electoral support by formulating new principles to fit the needs of a society which has been transformed out of all recognition over the past 60 years. Changing the image or improving presentational techniques is just not enough! This book is about how to achieve a revived Labour Party.

With desirable measures in view, it is shown how left of centre parties in the industrialised world have the potential of securing 90% support of the population. But this is dependent on addressing those underlying issues of concern to most people which politicians tend to ignore. The role of New Socialism is to analyse these issues, and resolve them through a set of coherent doctrines which both unite and inspire the population at large.

A successful future for Socialism is reliant on the need to recognise the reality of social change. This is something which has been ignored for too long. We now live in a multi-class society of the middle-middle majority which is so structured that the old political weapon of class struggle is ineffectual and defunct. This is realised by most, but until now, no alternative dynamic has been offered in driving forward the cause of the majority. This book presents such a dynamic.

Whilst New Socialism remains Socialist in a real sense, it calls upon all sectors of society for support, since all are similarly threatened by economic and other ills to the same degree, and this was not the case in earlier times. Consequently, the future entails a struggle against economic systems rather than against economic interest groups. This is of immense significance in designing the future style and structure of politics.

Hence a new mind-set for Socialism needs to be created which is very different from that in the past. It is shown how the ghost of Marxism and class struggle (still implied in Labour’s thinking) needs to be exorcised from the consciousness of the left, since they have become counter-productive to the core economic ends of true Socialism. Although the author covers most aspects of Socialism in depth, his books are addressed to the lay reader and he succeeds in avoiding the jargon found in much academic literature.

The book is divided into the following five parts:- Part I The Mismatch of New Society With Old Ideas, 6 chapters; Part II Exorcising The Ghost of Marx, 7 chapters; Part III The Call On Expertise For Change, 5 chapters; Part IV Social Ethics & The Influence of The Religious Instinct, 12 chapters; & Part V Addressing Some Current Issues: an exercise in applying New Socialist principles, 3 chapters.

Book Contents

Preface page – iii

PART I

Introduction page – 1

THE MISMATCH OF NEW SOCIETY WITH OLD IDEAS

CHAPTER 1

The Remit of Political Discussion

1 – Need to identify the remit of political discussion 2 – The 8 spheres of political life 3 – Characteristics of a political party 4 – Characteristics of the local politician 5 – Distinguishing the Agitator from the Politician 6 – The change from Idealist to Functionary 7 – Characteristics of the Ordinary party member 8 – The Councillor and Ordinary member compared 9 – The Trades Union activist 10 – Future role of the unions 11 – But this is threatened 12 – The party as national government 13 – The fusion and confusion between Action and Purpose 14 – Limitations of governmental power 15 – Need to re-formulate principles in strengthening party purpose 16 – Socialist interpretation of national interests 17 – Dangers to democracy 18 – Distinguishing the Labour Party electorate from the Labour Party membership 19 – Is the Party betrayed by the government?

CHAPTER 2

Arousing a New Political Consciousness

1 – Need to repudiate the tenets of the past 2 – The transformation of society 3 – The new 90% majority is New Labour’s natural constituency 4 – Economic changes demonstrating this 5 – Confronting Neo-Liberalism 6 – Arousing a consciousness for the Responsible Society 7 – Function of the Party Manifesto 8 – Underlying philosophy of the Party should unify its component parts 9 – Party and not government should oversee principles 10 – Old Socialism seeks to undermine the Realpolitik of Labour government 11 – The objectivity of New Socialism helps to justify practical necessity 12 – Value of the historical approach to political understanding 13 – Importance of empiricism 14 – Need for sociological considerations 15 – And lastly, the holistic approach

CHAPTER 3

Chameleons, Self-Deceivers and Intriguers

1 – Confronting a chameleon 2 – Business people must become agents for change 3 – Damaging legacy of Old Socialist feeling 4 – The dyspeptic local official 5 – The success of his tactics 6 – But he remains a respected establishment figure 7 – Despite his hidden political views 8 – Pretence and hypocrisy of many Party activists 9 – Causes of this 10 – An ideological vacuum makes the Party vulnerable 11 – The poison of those with secret agendas

CHAPTER 4

The Drive towards Internal Authority

1 – Internal and External authority 2 – Why society’s leaders should support New Socialism 3 – The multi-class society disdains class struggle 4 – Class war no longer viable 5 – Implications in attacking an economic system 6 – Socialists as promoters of business 7 – As responsible managers of the economy 8 – Old Socialism was undemocratic 9 – Collectivism and representative bodies are often undemocratic 10 – Comparison with true democratic systems 11 – People power defined 12 – Origins and nature of state authority 13 – Authority in the medieval world 14 – Emergence of capitalism 15 – Centralisation and the new absolutism and reactions against them

CHAPTER 5

Emergence of the Fully Conscious Community

1 – Differentiation between Old and New Socialist attitudes to the acquisitive instinct 2 – Contrasting outcome of the American and French Revolutions 3 – Emergence of the uncompromising struggle 4 – But it entailed a de-humanising or regression of social consciousness 5 – Emergence of the middle-middle majority 6 – The popular demand for ownership and control differs from that of Old Socialism 7 – Social benefits of the knowledge-based society 8 –The strengthening of internal authority 9 – Confronting the problem of bread and circuses 10 – Whilst the American concept of freedom is based on Satisfaction the European concept is based on the Reality of human relations 11 – But Behaviourist management techniques have taken over the Labour Party 12 – Full consciousness in society and what it means

CHAPTER 6

Breakdown of The Old Class System

1 – The benevolent state and the uncaring individual 2 – New Socialism concerned with all aspects of society 3 – The communally-minded middle class of an earlier epoch 4 – Misunderstanding which led to class tensions 5 – The old classes were to destroy themselves 6 – The need for social capital 7 – The hidden origins of the beautiful people 8 – Decline of the old middle class 9 – The first political blow 10 – How the Tories betrayed the old middle class 11 – New values and emergence of the middle-middle majority 12 – Decline of the old working class 13 – A call to the declining classes 14 – The new egalitarianism

PART II

Introduction page – 73

EXORCISING THE GHOST OF MARX

CHAPTER 7

The Directional Crisis of The Labour Party

1 – Need to re-build the Labour Party 2 – Churning over old ideas compounds issues rather than resolves them 3 – The philosophy needs up-dating 4 – Evidence of Party decline 5 – Causes of poor morale 6 – Mismatch between the world of actuality and constructive thought 7 – Tony Blair and his values 8 – The problem with pragmatists 9 – How it weakens resolve 10 – The values of Old Labour and Old Socialism 11 – How they became anachronistic 12 – Changes in the sociology of work 13 – Spirit of toleration has emerged from the heterogeneous middle-middle majority 14 – Demise of unfair discrimination 15 – How toleration has advanced individualism 16 – Class war is now anathema with the majority

CHAPTER 8

Matching Labour With The New Society

1 – Labour must look forward but never back 2 – Transformed working class abhors class conflict 3 – Transformation of the old middle class 4 – Discrimination against any intrinsic groups is no longer acceptable 5 – Social structures no longer enable a class war situation 6 – New Socialism is about empowering the individual 7 – Analysis of capitalism is at the core of New Socialism 8 – Labour leaders have always disdained business 9 – Differentiating desirable from undesirable business practices 10 – The phony and the real economies 11 – The dialectic of Productive Profitability in assessing all business activity 12 – New Labour associates with the wrong business leaders 13 – And consequently has failed to address urgent issues 14 – Labour’s new 90% constituency 15 – The great struggle ahead 16 – The dialectic of New Socialism in empowering change 17 – Marxism remains a barrier against change 18 – And through collectivism denies freedom 19 – Emergence of the Responsible Society and its significance

CHAPTER 9

Seeing Socialism In Its Correct Perspective

1 – Democratic Socialism is now the only acceptable form of Socialism 2 – Contemporary Socialism fails to challenge corporate capital 3 – And the dynamics essential to business 4 – Technology exerts social and economic change 5 – The moral high ground of groups does not in itself justify their right to power 6 – Worldwide atrocities of Old Socialism 7 – Working people no longer natural Labour supporters 8 – The ills of Old Socialism are systemic 9 – Right wing parties have passed more legislation benefiting the masses 10 – Futility of hero-worship or that of bygone movements

CHAPTER 10

Why People Resist The Socialist Cause

1 – Good intentions not enough 2 – Primal causes must be sought and understood 3 – Socialist-like legislation from non-Socialist sources is still a benefit 4 – Socialism emerges most successfully in highly educated societies 5 – The problem of presenting Socialism 6 – The surreptitious influence of Marx 7 – The unconscious Marxists 8 – Marxism is a science for revolution rather than a programme for construction 9 – Psychological reasons for resisting the lure of Socialism

CHAPTER 11

How Marxism Damages Socialism’s Credibility

1 – Marxism must be repudiated 2 – Relevance and irrelevance of Marxism today 3 – Towards the new class consciousness 4 – The different nature of future Socialist struggle 5 – Marxism today is retrogressive 6 – Marx failed to predict the bifurcation of capitalism into malign and benign forms 7 – His idealisation of the proletariat falsified reality 8 – Today’s multi-class majority are repelled by his view of the proletariat 9 – Politics as a “science” 10 – Subjectivity of class struggle devalues politics as a science 11 – The psychological fault lines in Marxism 12 – Futility of the Labour Value theory

CHAPTER 12

The Core of New Socialist Philosophy

1 – New Socialism’s Productive Profitability as an objective evaluation method 2 – A constructive methodology for the resolution of conflict 3 – New Socialism employs the descriptive mode in foretelling a desirable future 4 – As it also equally values those from every sector of society 5 – Invalidity of dialectical-materialism 6 – New Idealism as an essential tool for constructive thought and as a unified conceptual synthesis 7 – The 20th century’s dearth of political thought 8 – The legacy of 20th century philosophy 9 – Consequently, political philosophy (or science) has been placed in a straitjacket 10 – Need to consider ethical values 11 – Other values of idealist philosophy 12 – Marx an accident of history

CHAPTER 13

Promoting The New Socialist Message

1 – Fourfold approach to the core values of New Socialism 2 – Ethical appeal to all sectors of society 3 – Most highly-educated should be drawn in as Labour Party activists 4 – Promoting New Socialist education 5 – Aspiring qualities of New Socialists 6 – Spreading the message 7 Creating the right social ambience 8 – A role for the older generation 9 – Spin-doctoring has discredited the Labour Party 10 – The need for Public Intellectuals 11 – The role of the trades union movement 12 – Labour’s integrity can only be recovered through sound intellectual foundations

page – 140

PART III

Introduction page - 153

THE CALL ON EXPERTISE FOR CHANGE

CHAPTER 14

Acknowledging Social Change

1 – A unanimity on social values 2 – Privilege is now a thing from the past 3 – Class-based parties have served their useful purpose 4 – The multi-class (or classless) society loathes intolerance 5 – Business values are the essential springboard for general prosperity 6 – Industry and not the politics of the left did more to raise the standards of the poor 7 – Old Socialists fail to acknowledge the political significance of social change 8 – They never attempted to develop a business culture 9 – Unreality of Old Socialism’s benign view of human nature 10 – Why Old Socialists refuse to consider the views of the broader populace 11 – The political system has alienated itself from the people, not vice versa 12 – Mismatch between ideology and actuality 13 – Old Socialist doctrines an embarrassment to the Labour Party 14 – Real class divisions prior to 1950 15 – The spirit of tolerance has evoked an intolerance of class war 16 – Divisiveness is judged by the majority as perverse

CHAPTER 15

Futility of Class Struggle

1 – Education and cooperation in the work environment 2 – Egalitarianism in the wake of consumerism 3 – The passing of privilege makes for a democratic environment 4 – Lack of class-based issues 5 – Not even Rentier Capitalism lends itself to class struggle 6 – Those operating the worst aspects of capitalism cannot easily be identified as a class 7 – The existing remnants of class war Socialists 8 – The benign dialectical purpose of class war was malign in practice 9 – New Labour’s fence-sitting leaves Socialism in limbo 10 – Whilst a dualistic society makes for confrontation, a multi-class middle-middle majority makes for cooperation 11 – A comparison between past and present 12 – When envy is a private vice and not a reflection of social ills

CHAPTER 16

Employers in The Vanguard of Progress

1 – Real Socialism can only be achieved through the initiative of those at the apex of society 2 – Those amongst the apex of society have always promoted the interests of the majority 3 – Middle class fear of the proletarianisation of society: its political basis 4 – Its psychological basis 5 – Attractions of Socialism to the affluent 6 – Inevitable juggernaut of freedom for the majority 7 – Employee ownership will promote not hinder efficiency 8 – Old Socialism in practice prevents the achievement of its own purpose 9 – How employee ownership will be achieved and welcomed by bosses 10 – Leading industrialists as Socialists 11 – New Socialism a return to St. Simonism 12 – If Marxism had been bye-passed real Socialism may have already been achieved at an earlier epoch in history

CHAPTER 17

The Socialism of Industrialists

1 – The City represses those with innovative ideas 2 – Whilst the Labour Party spurns innovative industrialists 3 – Examples of outstanding industrialists 4 – A classless Socialism would be very different from a proletarian Socialism 5 – A well-informed objectivity compared with a resentful subjectivity 6 – Promoting a changing community as opposed to one preserved in aspic 7 – Consequences of the merging political parties 8 – Towards a one-party system 9 – Insincerity of Labour’s attitude towards class 10 – Goodwill and candid attitudes in creating the Responsible society 11 – Curiosity and appreciating psychological motivations 12 – Social ethics is the core to uniting different cultural class groups

CHAPTER 18

The New Socialist Network

1 – Re-building Labour’s membership 2 – The alternative realism of class party strife 3 – Strategy for a New Socialist Network 4 – A discreet movement 5 – Techniques to be employed 6 – Targeting prospective New Socialists 7 – And those in the local community 8 – Door-to-door and high-street canvassing 9 – Network Circles 10 – Organisation of the Network

PART IV

Introduction page - 191

SOCIAL ETHICS AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE RELIGIOUS INSTINCT

CHAPTER 19

Goodwill and Ethical Politics

1 – Social ethics central to politics 2 – Gives a long-term purpose to politics 3 – Why the link with religion? 4 – Significance of churchgoers 5 – Their duty to free the world 6 - Churches endorse this 7 – Moral implications of the work ethic 8 – Significance of New Socialism 9 – New Idealism 10 – Its relevance to a more positive politics 11 – Optimism is a moral imperative 12 – Ubiquity of religion 13 – Value of deism 14 – How revealed religion drives many to atheism 15 – A credible belief system 16 – Demonstrable truths have an ethical value in their own right 17 – Unsubstantiated beliefs an evil 18 – Religion natural to humankind 19 – New Socialist perspective of religion 20 – The modern churchgoer 21 – Pursuing a dialogue 22 – Democracy not in conflict with an all-encompassing philosophy 23 – Convictions only best achieved in a free environment

CHAPTER 20

The Corner-Stone of Religion

1 – Ethics as the corner-stone of religion 2 – Need for a unifying world religious consciousness 3 – Ethics as an insoluble philosophical problem 4 – Practicality of the religious sense 5 – Ethics subordinate within the wider realm of religious righteousness 6 – Need for sincerity 7 – But the dangers of conviction 8 – Contemporary crisis of the churches 9 – Their unfortunate response to this 10 – The crisis of belief 11 – When is religion destroyed by disbelief?

CHAPTER 21

Doctrines and Their Social Influence

1 – Definitions of religion 2 – Primitive religion (or magic) 3 – Religion in the classical world 4 – Rise of Christianity 5 – As a force for social good 6 – Integrity of the Church Triumphant 7 – Aquinas and the search for truth 8 – Reflected in the understanding of humanity 9 – Reformation no reflection of religious progress in its true sense 10 – Psychological consequences of salvation through faith 11 – Questionable character of the Reformers 12 – The poodle of the princes 13 – The dictator of Heaven on earth 14 – Psychological consequences of predestination 15 – The atomisation of religion 16 – Its contemporary sterility

CHAPTER 22

Looking East and West

1 – Perceiving the evolution of religion 2 – Islamic theology in advance of Christianity 3 – Limitations of belief in a personal god 4 – Backwardness of Islamic social life 5 – A religion that prevents progress 6 – The 3 reasons for this 7 – The threat to Islamic civilisation 8 – Contrast between the Islamic and Sino-Japanese civilisations 9 – Religion responsible for these differences 10 – The nature of Confucianism 11 – Contrasted with the Abrahamic religions 12 – The value of a religion is in its sociological outcome 13 – Sanity of Confucianism contrasted with the dualism of the West 14 – A better approach to inventiveness 15 – A developing religion 16 – The dynamism of Singapore 17 – Women more liberated than in the West 18 Healthiness of the Confucian soul

CHAPTER 23

Why There is no Best Religion

1 – Contemporary relevance of Buddhism 2 – Contrasted with the Abrahamic religions 3 – Our pagan ancestors respected the environment 4 – Buddhism: a religion for the environment 5 – And its kindness to the animal kingdom 6 – Eastern view of Western religion 7 – No one religion superior to the rest 8 – Insensitivity of missionary activity 9 – The “White man’s” religion 10 – Conserving primitive cultures

CHAPTER 24

The Decadence of Contemporary Religion

1 – Religion’s decline wrongly attributed to sin 2 – Conventional religion has lost its credibility 3 – The agnostic often a better person than the churchgoer 4 – Failure of the churchgoer to extend his intellectual horizons 5 – Methodism and the retardation of social progress 6 – Religious thought has lagged behind secular thought 7 – How religious doctrines were imposed by law 8 – And passively accepted to the present day 9 – Religion is now too often an aesthetic experience only 10 – This compared with that in the classical world 11 – Medieval theology suited the medieval man 12 Modern Biblical teaching unconvincing

CHAPTER 25

How Ethics Relies on Truth

1 – Ethical retardation of modern religion 2 – The meaning of truth 3 – Applying truth to religion 4 – Fighting superstition and falsehood 5 – Church leaders must maintain intellectual integrity 6 – Bible abused as a work of revelation 7 – Bible not an ideal source for ethical teaching 8 – An example of this 9 – Crimes of the Jewish God 10 – Bible’s influence in promoting strife and cruelty 11 – The Fall, as interpreted through the centuries

CHAPTER 26

The Problem of Sexual Morality

1 – The sexual allegory 2 – The power of sexual repression 3 – How the church has destroyed spontaneity between the sexes 4 – Definition of sin 5 – Sense of sin a poor guide to a fulfilled life 6 – Responsibility of the Christian preacher 7 – Pathological sexual guilt special to the Abrahamic religions 8 – Morality distinguished from ethics 9 – Narrow interpretation of Christian morality 10 – Some sexual issues for ethical consideration 11 – Issues not considered 12 – Some proposals on approaching sexual issues 13 – Utilising love in fighting racism 14 – Putting an end to secrecy and hypocrisy 15 – The Christian activist’s attitude to sex

CHAPTER 27

Immorality of Hellfire Crusading

1 – Questionable tactics of Christian crusading 2 – Its repudiation of the truth 3 – Hellfire as the ultimate weapon 4 – The need for demonstrable truth 5 – Failure of theological metaphysics 6 – Subjective truth is no truth 7 – Ethics demands the truth 8 – Only in religion is it seen as necessary to deceive 9 – Harmful effects of this 10 – Adverse effects of the Bible on the unbeliever

CHAPTER 28

The Search for Religious Belief

1 – Philistinism of the contemporary church in comparison with the Victorian era 2 – A churchman’s dismissal of ethics 3 – Value of the churches in arousing social consciousness 4 – And as a haven for the unfortunate 5 – Bible most significant as a study in resentment 6 – In this light it is a work of aesthetic truth 7 – Truth is sacrificed when the Bible is used as Revelation 8 – And the spiritual truths of other religions are denied 9 – No book exclusively promotes the spiritual truth 10 – All religions must be subjected to sociological analysis 11 – criteria by which decadence of religions may be measured 12 – Present diversity of religious belief 13 – “Feminist” Christianity

CHAPTER 29

Towards a Rational Theology

1 – Reasons for the need of true religion 2 – The paradox of religious appeal 3 – Need for a broader ecumenical movement 4 – The need for faith and how it works 5 – Description of those without faith 6 – Faith without true religion is sterile 7 – The meaning of God 8 – Essential to a modern religious consciousness 9 – The impersonality of God 10 – Taking God’s name in vain 11 – He is not a mere intervener in fulfilling petty desires 12 – Foolish attempts at proving God’s existence

CHAPTER 30

Foundations for a Unifying Religion

1 – The question of Immortality 2 – Bad arguments for its existence 3 – Its usefulness to exploiters and warmongers 4 – Heaven as a club for the select few 5 – Ethics of the Saved and the Damned 6 – Better ethics of Eastern immortality 7 – A rational definition of immortality 8 – A definition of Heaven and Hell 9 – Forgiveness 10 – Prayer 11 – Theology must give way to philosophy 12 – Towards a new religious consciousness

PART V

ADDRESSING SOME CURRENT ISSUES: AN EXERCISE IN APPLYING NEW SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER 31

Healing The Rural/Urban Political Divide

1 – The traditional divide 2 – Misconceptions about rural life 3 – When urbanites are disabused of their illusions 4 – Characteristics of the farmer 5 – Unique features of the agricultural market 6 – Inevitable conservatism of farmers 7 – Labour’s disdain for rural interests 8 – New Socialism gives a high priority to farming interests 9 – Farmers now exists in a political vacuum 10 – Crazy market conditions 11 – Rentier economy undermining rural life 12 – How hunting has become a metaphor for freedom 13 – A Labour PPC and the Hunt Protesters 14 – Why hunting has become a political totemic cause 15 – New Socialism’s agricultural doctrines 16 – Need to appreciate social difference between functional groups 17 – Confronting the hunting issue 18 – Interdependence of town and country 19 – Rentier corporations are the real enemy of home-based agriculture

CHAPTER 32

The Super-Rich and Communal Need

1 – Benign and malign aspects of great personal wealth 2 – When the rich are wrongly blamed 3 – Concerns of the middle-middle majority at the top 1% 4 – Inviolability of the super-rich is protected by the international economy 5 – Emergence of the inflationary trickle-up economy 6 – Who the super-rich are 7 – Pricking their conscience 8 – Their promotion of the rentier economy 9 – The problem of taxation 10 – Categorising the top 1% 11 – Re-establishing the Upper Exchequer courts 12 – Adverse effect of the super-rich on the macro-economy 13 – Comparison with Rome 14 – Self-deception of the CBI 15 – Counter-warnings 16 – The exporting of skills 17 – Why others call for protectionism 18 – Warnings of US scholars on the winner takes all society 19 – A culture may be transformed through financial shifts in the economic system

CHAPTER 33

Confronting The Future

1 – Tony Blair and New Socialism 2 – What politicians think more important than what they say 3 – The smooth accession of real Socialism 4 – As a middle class movement 5 – And as the Responsible Society 6 – New Socialism as a worldwide belief system 7 – In countering the causes of terrorism 8 – Futility of brute force 9 – Propagating the message 10 – Confronting Neo-Liberalism 11 – Its economic characteristics and seeds of self-destruction 12 – The problem of America 13 – Her benign past and malign present 14 – The real emerging world political divide 15 – A role for Britain 16 – Ruinous consequences of the “Special relationship” 17 – Regaining her integrity and independence

APPENDIX A - On the label “New Socialism”
APPENDIX B - Egalitarianism and Meritocracy
APPENDIX C - On Authoritative Texts
APPENDIX D - More Than an Ordinary Party
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INDEX