The Death of Socialism

Preface V; CHAPTER 1; End of the Old Class System; 1 - Failures of the Labour government; 2 - How Tony Blair promised a better future; 3 - The betrayal of the future; 4 - Class struggle betrayed the integrity of Labour; 5 - How this occurred; 6 - The new majority's intolerance of class divisiveness; 7 - When collectivism served the masses; 8 - How collectivism became counter-productive; 9 - The socio-economic necessity of individualism; CHAPTER 2; The Unrepresented New Majority; 1 - The new majority is politically unrepresented; 2 - Political concerns ignored by politicians; 3 - Why the Labour party ignores the middle-middle majority; 4 - A blind eye turned on the financial-industrial system; 5 - When Labour decided to ignore the problems of capitalism; 6 - The represented and the unrepresented by the Labour party; CHAPTER 3; The Bureaucratic versus the Enterprise Ethos; 1 - The cultural dichotomy between Bureaucratic and Enterprise values; 2 - Historical origins of this cultural-economic divide; 3 - How Enterprise enabled the first democracies; 4 - Enterprise values compared in China and Eastern Europe; 5 - Japan: Business ethos promoted through feudal values; 6 - Business cultures contrasted in Western Europe; 7 - Why collectivism is a bar to enterprise; 8 - The limitations of political representation. CHAPTER 4; Oppressing the Aspirations of the Individual; 1 - The aversion of the left to facing the new realities; 2 - The innate aversion of socialists for individualism; 3 - How socialist collectivism promotes internal conflict; 4 - Its poisonous effect on good relationships; 5 - The comforts of collectivism and the repudiation of modernity; 6 - Collectivism an inevitable consequence of socio-economic oppression; 7 - Socialism was the gift of the privileged to the underclass; 8 - Ignorance of the underclass spurred its hostility; 9 - Socialist rationale for dumbing-down proletarian aspirations; CHAPTER 5; Intuitive Intelligence of the New Majority; 1 - Proletarian values hinder human progress; 2 - Where is the best leadership to be found?; 3 - The middle-middle majority embody the core values of fairness and equity; 4 - The dis-benefits to society of positive discrimination; 5 - Socialism's dog-in-the-manger attitude; 6 - Futility of the class-based approach to issues; 7 - Destructiveness of the proletarian mentality; 8 - Democracy dependent on a good generalist education; CHAPTER 6; An Unpropitious Political Environment; 1 - Failures of contemporary generalist education; 2 - Relativism in education undermines democracy; 3 - All parties across the spectrum are failing society; 4 - Response to Labour party reformers; 5 - Attacked by the Blairites; 6 - Difficulties of a Labour party Education Officer; 7 - Dark secrets of the old guard?; 8 - Pro-democratic in theory but anti-democratic in practice. CHAPTER 7; A Decaying Party Corrupts its Members; 1 - In pursuit of a peace-making mission; 2 - The plot thickens; 3 - Am publicly denounced for "Writing without the authority of the party"; 4 - How I struck back; 5 - My authority is restored; 6 - A political milieu of universal deceit; 7 - How people are unknowingly corrupted by false understanding; 8 - When good ideologies pass their sell-by-date; CHAPTER 8; Towards a Higher Political Consciousness; 1 - The purpose of ideology is to predict rather than direct progress; 2 - Injustice of class discrimination perceived by the new majority; 3 - Intuitive wisdom of the middle-middle majority; 4 - Political attitudes of the new majority; 5 - Moral sensibility of the new majority; 6 - The self-destructiveness of socialist hatred; 7 - Repressing standards as the road to equality; CHAPTER 9; The Need for Objectivity; 1 - Problems and not "people" or "classes" should be the focal point of politics; 2 - A once great party is now rotten to its core; 3 - The great promise of 1997; 4 - My task of reconstruction; 5 - Conflict-promotion is preferred to objective understanding; 6 - Socialists forget the ends of socialism through their obsession with the means; 7 - Socialism's criteria of value leads to the election of the undesirable; CHAPTER 10; Egalitarianism of the Aspiring Majority; 1 - The role of Social Capitalism in awakening the class-consciousness of the middle-middle majority; 2 - Education for egalitarianism; 3 - Promoting academic success within an egalitarian milieu; 4 - Discipline is essential in ensuring the best education for all; 5 - Ensuring the best education for all irrespective of attributes. CHAPTER 11; Transcending the Conflicts of the Past; 1 - How the super-rich and the contemporary underclass are alienated from mainstream society; 2 - Why the emerging Responsible Society is the only significant class today; 3 - True democracy is only viable through the absolute power of the Responsible Society; 4 - Its perspective transcends he conflicts of the past; 5 - Socialism's perspective of human nature is based on false premises; 6 - Only the ignorant are held in awe by the glamour of superfluous wealth; 7 - The envy of inequality amongst the equal is only found amongst the ignorant; CHAPTER 12; The Politics of the Future; 1 - An optimistic determinism should not be assumed; 2 - The only reality behind left/right politics; 3 - The malign origins of left/right politics; 4 - The call for Enlightenment values; 5 - Unifying the different sectors of society; 6 - Encouraging the best to participate; 7 - Making local government democratically accountable; 8 - Neo-Liberalism alone confronts Social Capitalism; Index.