Under Corbyn; once more will the comrades be called upon to rally

JEREMY CORBYN'S latest pronouncement about the possibility of resurrecting Clause IV - that abysmal socialist construct that sits well with those early French cave paintings as a historical curiosity – is an almost embarrassing pronouncement to make. But Corbyn is serious. Corbyn leading the Labour Party is conceivable - but leading the country?

               

                Socialism has always; wherever it has been applied has been the great drag anchor on human advancement in the fields of science and technology… coupled with ambition and enterprise. This two forked fork of human advancement is built upon an understanding of human nature which is in direct opposition to socialism.

                

                Capitalism is a construct by which human nature works to the benefit of society as a whole; not through any socialist impulse; but through ambition, success and reward: the social benefits are the outcome of such an arrangement, but are purely coincidental to the system of capitalism. They are accidental because the ambitious impulses of the individual given the freedom to advance themselves which democracy gives them; and allows them to create wealth via businesses that give employment to whole families. Ambition, so the saying goes, is its own reward. But this can only be true under free market capitalism – the socialist alternative is working for the state; where ambition and reward are effectively ideologically neutered.

                

                Socialists despise wealth creation and profit and they see ambition as a worm eating into the very fabric of a socialist society. Impulses such as ambition are part of the bourgeois construct and are to be got rid of. How the cleansing of these impulses of human nature is to be traduced, we will only know if Corbyn becomes the next prime minister: but the history of socialism gives us plenty of forewarning.

                

                But if this historical precedent becomes Corbyn's example for his future socialist utopia, then human misery can only follow. It will follow because whenever socialism has attained any kind of supremacy, human misery has habitually followed. Socialism challenges capitalism: socialism sees only socialism as a replacement for the fiction it spreads against capitalism. So the kind of socialism Corbyn believes in will always lead to a one party state without any kind of opposition.

               

                Corbyn may object to the above, but he will be wrong to do so. He clearly separates socialism from capitalism and sees only his socialist supremacy as a counter to what he perceives as unwanted challenges from the private enterprise.

IT IS UTTER madness of course; but such romantic notions of equality and egalitarianism have always appealed to the young; as they did me in my own youth, and are still doing to today's youth. Young men like the Guardianista Owen Jones, who are too young to bear witness to the ruination of humanity that socialism wrought in its wake, but nevertheless remain infatuated with such an abysmal ideology. I can list to Corbyn the millions of deaths that socialism has been proved responsible for. But it is now too late in Corbyn's life for him to retract the insidiousness of socialism that he has spent his life trying to justify. 

               Corbyn, I hope, will eventually win his leadership battle. But even with a 30 percent increase over his nearest rival, according to the latest poll, in the Labour Party leadership battle; it does not mean he will become the next party leader. But if he does, and I think he will, the Labour Party will follow the old Whig party in becoming mordant and a mere blemish on the historical political landscape.

                The Labour Party will no doubt split into halves (and not for the first time), that will have to go their own separate ways. The divide if it comes will be between a new Social Democratic Party (SDP), and a new kind of Benn/Foot/Corbyn kind of axis that has, in its whole history managed to construct failure and replicate its failure time and time again. In the 1980s the so called Gang of Four, Roy Jenkins, and other former Labour cabinet ministers, David Owen, William Rodgers and Shirley Williams, all named by the media after its Chinese 'equivalent'; left the Labour Party, and sought to change the political landscape by creating a new party - they failed; they were well before their time – but as the old adage says time catches up. Now it may be time for the Labour Party to go their own separate ways once more, as the pull between social democracy and socialism once again engage in battle as it did in the 1980s .

                

                Corbyn will become Labour leader; but he will not become prime minister. If the British people however, overwhelmed by Corbyn's outmoded rhetoric believe him capable of leading the country in sufficient numbers to elect him; then it will be the end of England and will lead to a mass exodus from the country of those of the indigenous population with the finances to so do, to calmer waters over the pond: and those indigenous people left behind without the finances to claim asylum in America, will be left to oppose Corbynism.