Dear Gillian The reason is simple and straight forward. The inequalities and injustices implicit within the division of labour of predatory capitalism is cleverly blamed
Tag: work
John Ruskin: Useful Work as the Only ‘Pure’ Religion (c. 1886)
In the first three paragraphs, John Ruskin is describing his 1849 visit to the Grande Chartreuse. This is the head-monastery of the Carthusian (Catholic) monastic
Is Corbyn’s Betrayal of Labour Greater than Ramsey MacDonald’s?
The Story of Ramsey MacDonald I have written extensively in the past about the uneasy relationship between the Socialist left (Marxist-Leninism) and the Labour Party. This is
Invalidation of the Worker Part III: Torturing Disabled Children in British Academy Schools (6.4.2019)
Mother sues over daughter’s suicide attempt in school isolation booth The manner in which disabled people are treated as adults in society is exactly the
The Error of the Church in Defining ‘work’ and Denying Socialism
The error in theology is this: whereas the monastics perform a selfless and voluntary labour (copying their saviour) within a serene setting where everything is
When the Conformist Revolutionaries Come to Town!
Conformist Revolutionaries are easy to spot. They state (without any reliable evidence) that Mao and Stalin were tyrants and mass killers, and that Hitler was a very maligned and misunderstood world leader (conformist Revolutionaries, whilst having no time for Marx or Lenin, nevertheless are perfectly willing to entertain the thought that Hitler might have been ‘innocent’ of the crimes he committed).