Socialism without republicanism?

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•TO HOPE to achieve Socialism without Republicanism is the sort of thing that could only occur among English-speaking people; it would hardly be possible for men with any profound knowledge of history, of any understanding of the economic and psychological links between different institutions"

That was Bertrand Russell, in 1926, reviewing Leon Trotsky's 'Where is Britain Going?' "How can they dare threaten bourgeois property", Trotsky asked of the British labour leaders, "when they do not even dare refuse the Prince of Wales pocket money?

"'The royal power, they declare, 'does not interfere' with the country's progress, and is cheaper than a president, if we count all the expenses of elections, etc.etc.

"These speeches of the labour leaders are characteristic of a phase of their 'peculiar' nature which cannot be called by any other name than consery. ative stupidity.

'The royal power is weak because the instrument of bourgeois rule is the bourgeois Parliament and because the bourgeoisie does not need any special activ. ities outside of Parliament. But in case of need, the bourgeoisie will make use of the royal power with great success as a concentration of all nonparliamentary, i.e. REAL forces: aimed against the ruling class.

•The English bourgeoisie has always well understood the dangers even of the most fictitious monarch in certain. situations.

'Thus, in 1837, the English government abolished the designation of 'Great Mogul' in India and removed the bearer of the name from the holy city of Delhi, in spite of the fact that this name had already begun to lose its prestige. The English bourgeoisie knew that under favourable circumstances the Great Mogul might concentrate in himself the forces of the independent upper classes directed against English rule.

Magic

'To proclaim a socialist platform and at the same time to declare that the royal power does not 'interfere' and is actually cheaper is equivalent, for in. stance, to a recognition of materialistic science combined with the use of magic incantations for toothache - since the latter are cheaper. Such little "insignificant' traits fully characterise a man by showing the complete emptiness of his recognition of material science and the complete fallaciousness of his system of ideas.

'The socialist cannot consider the question of monarchy from the point of view of present-day book-keeping, especially with doctored books. The matter at stake is a complete transformation of society, a purification from all elements of serfdom.

'This task, both nastiness that last a lifetime.

One effect of the drug is thought to be to persuade women to attach themselves to violent and dangerous men. Women who have swallowed large doses have later been admitted to casualty departments in hospitals up and down the country, suffering from severe beatings.

Liaison takes place at pagan ceremonies in which the women symbolically subjugate themselves to a lifetime of breeding, cieaning, cooking and washing. In the fantasy which the drug induces the victim believes she is a beautiful, mysterious creature whose ambition is to be a "good wife" (an obscure form of servant).

In men the symptoms are weaker but can still prove fatal. They include strutting about with hands clasped behind the back, megalomania, split personalities, (referring to oneself in the plural), dissolving Parliaments and declaring war.

Behind "The Family" lies a whole shadowy apparatus of drug pushers which ally and psycholo lly, excludes any por lity of conciliation wil the monarchy"

Without

And today? Only a few left-wing Labour backbenchers, plus one maverick right-winger [Willie Hamilton), will go as far as Russell went.

The entire Labou r frontbench, and the Labo ur NEC too, is still aimin! for... Socialism without Republicanism. includes the police, the judiciary and parliament. Trade union and Labour Party leaders have also been prominent in the campaign to legalise The Family and their lethal poisons.

All are thought to take in millions in spin off profits.

STOP PRESS: A team of scientists claim to have come up with a top secret antidote to the poison.

Research teams, hidden in secret hiding places around the country, are working on a formula which will: bring down The Family; expose those who secretiy support them; banish the drug from the eyes of millions for . ever; establish a new order based on truth, equality and justice.

The team have been working on this formula, developed by a Mr K. Marx over 100 years ago.

Sir David McNee confirmed last night he was mobilising thousands of extra police to find these cells. "We cannot have the people taking things into their own hands" , he said.