Vision, road maps and building the scaffold for something better
It must be becoming obvious to most folk, even to the un-politicised. That the government, Isn’t working in the interest of most people.
So how do ordinary people take back their agency in order to counter this unaccountable barrage of lies, fraud, misrepresentation, injustice and chaos that our government has been enabling in order to protect the status quo?
Is it really possible to challenge the dominant class, without some strategic collective vision, for going forward. By putting together a Peoples Manifesto through agreeing on some collective common aims. through sensible conversations and actions.
How are we to understand the mechanisms of state that facilitate – That we should continue to argue and put blame on each other. That many should continually punch down to those below them, rather than up to where the bane of our problems lie, with the billionaires?
So vision in this context is not about seeing into the future. But rather about analysing what the future might hold for us. About what we are doing in the present that might have a positive effect on our future prospects.
But here it is also important to remember we are talking about institutional change. Not just cultural change, which most of us are involved in and of course we need. It is about working towards changing and replacing the institutions that are holding us to ransom. The banks, the tech giants, the billionaires class. Those who are in the process of wiping out our culture by a war of attrition, both physically and mentally.
So we are not really prepared for fighting this beast from our individual cultural silos and with no collective framework to organise around.
The process needs to be from a broader overarching non sectarian, coalition, network, or what ever we want to call it. And in our outreach, can we expect people to protest and to change their life and do all of the things that will be needed, without having an idea of where it is we are going and what’s in it for them.
Building the scaffold to challenge the status quo.
But also here it is not about tryin to present a complete blueprint of how the world works and what we should do.
But rather putting together the basic essentials, or what Michael Albert calls the “scaffold” for future experience to fill out.
The manifesto could start around some un-controversial aims, that will help to put our vision together. Like decent, schools, health, housing , transport and so on.
And by remembering to have some fun in learning important things.
Because.
We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know. There needs to be thought out strategic reasons for our activity and direction.
So the idea would be to building a vision, a road map of where we want to go. Through our own volition, ideas and activities, plus in solving many of our organisational problems we will meet along the way in doing this
Why we need a working-class manifesto.
Without any direction of where they want to be, people are in danger of become more prone to the ideas of masked thugs rioting in our communities, doing the work of their millionaire pay masters.
Because the working class are the only ones with nothing more to loose and everything to gain.
Because many, of the political class in this country and government too, have either been blackmailed or paid off by a foreign entity, and have made this very obvious for all to see.
So what is the alternative? A peoples manifesto? What’s to lose