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Although it may not seem apparent at first glance, the middle classes have an interest in socialism. Under neo-liberal free market economic policies the disenfranchised working classes become militant and hostile. Similarly the streets become crime ridden dangerous places where those without homes or employment are trying to survive. If a lawyer or doctor's son or daughter is walking down the street in most major Western cities they are told to be careful and make sure they walk on a certain side of it. Many are warned not to go down such streets at all.

The free market system creates enclaves for those with money to escape to. It leaves the dangerous zones and ghettoes unhospitable places that the middle classes cannot enter safely. And there is a possibility that the middle classes are not even safe in their suburbs and gated communities. At some time or another they will have to deal with the outside world, whether that is waiting at a train station for their first class cabin or having to walk through a dangerous city centre. In other words, the middle classes cannot escape the realities of deprivation that runaway capitalism creates. Therefore it is actually in their personal interest to pay slightly higher taxes for public services because it is an investment in the safety of their own communities and helps to create the type of social concensus that enables them to live a nice life.

It is very common to hear the middle classes complain about crime in England. When they travel to other countries where crime is not an issue they do not seem to make the connection between the existence of a social consensus and social harmony. In England there is very little social consensus and therefore the society is completely divided. No one can trust anyone else. Hooded gangs roam the streets. If the middle classes want the sort of society they dream of they must choose a social and national vision for their future.

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Although it may not seem apparent at first glance, the middle classes have an interest in socialism. Under neo-liberal free market economic policies the disenfranchised working classes become militant and hostile. Similarly the streets become crime ridden dangerous places where those without homes or employment are trying to survive. If a lawyer or doctor's son or daughter is walking down the street in most major Western cities they are told to be careful and make sure they walk on a certain side of it. Many are warned not to go down such streets at all.

The free market system creates enclaves for those with money to escape to. It leaves the dangerous zones and ghettoes unhospitable places that the middle classes cannot enter safely. And there is a possibility that the middle classes are not even safe in their suburbs and gated communities. At some time or another they will have to deal with the outside world, whether that is waiting at a train station for their first class cabin or having to walk through a dangerous city centre. In other words, the middle classes cannot escape the realities of deprivation that runaway capitalism creates. Therefore it is actually in their personal interest to pay slightly higher taxes for public services because it is an investment in the safety of their own communities and helps to create the type of social concensus that enables them to live a nice life.

It is very common to hear the middle classes complain about crime in England. When they travel to other countries where crime is not an issue they do not seem to make the connection between the existence of a social consensus and social harmony. In England there is very little social consensus and therefore the society is completely divided. No one can trust anyone else. Hooded gangs roam the streets. If the middle classes want the sort of society they dream of they must choose a social and national vision for their future.

National Socialism is as dead as communism and just like communism is never coming back. The reason is military technology no longer requires masses of people to make it go, it just needs high technology and a caste of highly skilled career professionals to make it go. If technology has once again made the masses militarily insignificant (and more so than ever) then there will be no possibility of translating populist rhetoric into political power, thus both national socialism and communism have no means to their ends.

The priest caste is consequently in permanent decline and no amount of rebooting into a new narrative scheme / ideology will save them from their well deserved obscurity. The future belongs to the warriors, the merchants and the working people.

[Political Interest]

National Socialism is as dead as communism and just like communism is never coming back. The reason is military technology no longer requires masses of people to make it go, it just needs high technology and a caste of highly skilled career professionals to make it go. If technology has once again made the masses militarily insignificant (and more so than ever) then there will be no possibility of translating populist rhetoric into political power, thus both national socialism and communism have no means to their ends.

The priest caste is consequently in permanent decline and no amount of rebooting into a new narrative scheme / ideology will save them from their well deserved obscurity. The future belongs to the warriors, the merchants and the working people.

Well first of all I am not advocating National Socialism. I used the words social and national to mean economic policies that protect the working classes and diplomatic and social/political policies that advance the national interest. I have no desire to revive National Socialism for obvious reasons. Perhaps my use of those two words together creates an awkward feeling.

I think that we can still create collectivist visions. What we need to do is convince the professional classes that it is in their interest to pursue a more socialist approach. Once they realise that they will benefit from such policies they will support them. At the moment they are of the belief that it would result in high taxes and no benefit to themselves. But they need to see that it will result in a safer and a better environment for their children as well as guaranteed job security, free health care and education.