'whether you are restating a case that has been
traduced in theory or practice, or whether you are advancing a new case. I
think that the book reads like the former . . .' David Miliband on his father's
last book, Socialism For A Sceptical Age
GEOFFREY LEVY is the man of the moment. He has
written an attack on Ralph Miliband the intellectual Marxist academic and
father of Ed and David Miliband. Levy's piece must have caused ructions within
the Miliband household; indeed, it is reported that Ed was spitting blood when
he read the piece in the Daily Mail[1].
What David thought of it we do not know; but from what we know of his Blairite
New Labour ideology; he would probably, out of loyalty to his family, condemn
Levy for his composition; but would have sympathised with much that he had
written?
As
Levy wrote, Ralph and his father came to Britain from Belgium in 1940 to escape
the Nazis, whose attitude to all Jews has been rightly pronounced as evil and
brutal. So Ralph landed on our shore and shortly after joined the Royal Navy.
After the war he remained in what was now his adopted country and in the years
that followed tried to turn this aged democracy into a Marxist state: and as
inconsiderate as this process was, considering the way in which the UK welcomed
him, Ralph no doubt thought we would all be better off living within a Marxist socialist state[2]…but
it was never his to call to make.
Levy
quotes the 17-year-old Ralph writing; ''The Englishman is a rabid nationalist.
They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world . . . you sometimes
want them almost to lose (the war) to show them how things are. They have the
greatest contempt for the Continent . . . To lose their empire would be the
worst possible humiliation.' This is
more than a youthful indiscretion, as the Left will no doubt portray it. Once
Ralph Miliband formulated an opinion or prejudice he kept to it throughout his
life. But as much as he despised the British elites; he nevertheless availed
himself of a fine education in his adopted country.
He also sent
is children to Oxford University - or should it be, he allowed them to be sent? Like all socialists who despise
capitalism, Ralph ignored the hypocrisy attached to such an arrangement when it
came to his own family, and thereafter continued condemning British elitism
whether represented by the monarchy, Oxbridge, or the traditional pantomime villain
of Marxism, the bourgeoisie.
Ralph
despised Stalinism in Russia - then why did he not try to fight it? After all,
unlike Soviet Russia, British colonialism never killed 30 million of its
colonists. The Marxist Stalin was arguably more evil than the Nazi Hitler. Yet
Ralph's hatred for the British Empire seems to have surpassed his loathing of Stalin's
evil works in the name of Marxism.
The
so-called New Left that Ralph Miliband would have considered himself to have
been at the forefront of in the 1970s decried Stalinism and sought to redefine
Soviet socialism as something called 'state capitalism'. Thus shifting the
blame of Marxism's 'failure' onto the shoulders of their class enemies in the
West.
The simple
truth is, that Lenin shared the same revolutionary purging instincts as Stalin;
and if it was not for his premature death, Lenin would have proven himself
worthy of Stalin's baseness. The same applies to Trotsky. In being a victim of
Stalin it allowed Marxists in the West such as the Socialist Workers Party to reinvent Marxism for the benefit of the student
youth. The great Marxist apologist writer, Isaac Deutscher, wrote a three
volume life of Trotsky which was meant to save Marxism from Stalin's grasp. But
it never did. Marxism means the control of man's souls by the state; and no
deviation will be allowed; whether it was Lenin, Stalin, or Trotsky, who
governed the Soviet Union.
RALPH MILIBAND was wrong and his stature as an intellectual
academic means very little in such circumstance. He, like his fellow Marxist
academics E. P. Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm were all proven wrong by history.
Socialism, in all of its many manifestations, has proven to be anathema to
human nature - which is why it seeks to suppress mankind's natural impulses.
What I fear;
and admittedly this is mere speculation from someone who knows very little about psychiatry; is that
Ed Miliband has a long held (childhood?) wish to please his father and make him
proud of him, as Geoffrey Levi insinuates in his article. Ed's wish to please
his father could account for his betrayal of his brother in the leadership
election to the Labour Party. He cares only for his father's respect, and he
believes that the first stage of earning that respect is to lead the Labour
Party.
The last
stage is to govern the country. Ed Miliband is no worthy suitor for the
premiership of this country. He has issues that need counselling to resolve.
His father had a far greater impact on him than he had on his elder brother
David. As the quote at the top of this piece suggests, David Miliband
understood all too well the fate of socialism.
David
Miliband was the right choice for Labour after Brown's defeat in 2010. The
Labour Party wanted him as their leader, and he deserved to become its leader
and would have proven successful as such. He had the support of the Party membership
and the MPs - but, because of that wretched anachronism called the 'block
vote', David's sibling emerged to lead the party.
ED MILIBAND (or so he believes) is his father's protégée and
it is to him and only him, that Ed Miliband answers. The future of the country,
or so it appears, comes down to electing a physiologically impaired leader[3] of this
country's main party of government.
The Daily Mail has given Ed a right of reply
to their analysis of his father; and no doubt there will be those on Left who
control many of our cultural institutions who will jump to his support and
profess disgust at the way the Daily Mail
has dragged a politicians relative into the sewer that is politics. The Guardian, Channel Four, and the BBC,
will jump to Ralph's aid, as many who work within these institutions are the
sons and daughters of Ralph's influence over them, an influence passed down
through the generations.
Ralph
Miliband hated this country, as all home-grown, as well as foreign Marxists do
to this day; and Geoffrey Levi will no doubt find it hard to find work after writing
his piece, thanks to the new Left-wing establishment that still dreams Ralph's
dream.
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