This webpage isn’t as
stylish as you usually get.
It’s just a platform
for downloads and links.
The text, large on desktop PC’s and flushed
left, works best on smartphones/devices.
The
System
Explained…
…The framework of how humanity
co-operates
(antagonistically!)
in doing the essential things
in life. How our world is run
by a self-centred
minority. Who they are. How the rest can
stand up to and regulate them.
By Ed McDonnell (see bottom of page).
After the introductory text, next, are free downloads
and links to where you can buy printed copies.
People think the
world is run by politics
But it’s the other way round. Politics comes
from the everyday world. Especially from
how humanity interact to make money or
make a living, by making goods, providing
services, and selling them. Trade, business,
work. The economy. Together with politics,
‘the system’.
There’s a lot wrong. We’re even wrecking our
habitat. And governments let us down. But
instead of tackling the real issues we get
diverted into phony loyalties and divisions
and daft conspiracy theories.
It’s because we ignore the system. View all
politics – in the media, other people’s, your
own - based on the system. And not just on
their opinions but on their role in the system.
People look to
‘politicians’ to put things right,
seeing the
political parties as interchangeable
management teams,
all aiming to ‘run the
country’ for all,
from above the system.
But politicians
don’t make the system, and
not from above
it. They come from it and
represent the
interests of different groups in it.
The production of
goods and services
that we call ‘the
economy’ is so social,
so
industrialised, involves everybody
working together
so much, is so collective,
it’s really a public
activity. But it is owned
and run
privately, by a self-confessed selfish
minority. They
run the key activity –making
a living – and
the sharing-out of income
and wealth. This
prevents democratic
political
regulation of the economy and
political
protection of people in their
basic needs.
The system is the
business system.
The minority is
business people –
the business class.
But people don’t
see business people as a class.
And though the
majority are almost all workers,
they don’t see
themselves as a class either.
Conservatives claim the system is all about
‘the
individual’…. Continued in the full book,
the free .pdf download, just below. Then the
book has The Ten Minute Read, The Twenty
Minute Read, and then the full content.
v.2023.11. A big read.
Just read to page 35 for the basics.
(That includes the Ten and Twenty Minute
Reads.)
And
here they are separately – in
large
text to read on phones/devices.
(You can print normal-size copies from the full book.)
Buy The Full Book…
Printed, coil-bound for easy
reading, from...
'The
System Explained' on Lulu.com
Special Papers
How To Talk Politics With Each Other.pdf
-
will help you discuss politics with others.
In large text for smart
phones/devices.
How To Talk Politics With Each Other for printing.pdf
-
the same text in smaller font for
printing
-
a version for progressive movements
with a small group activity for meetings.
Three
one-page charts - some of
the
work’s key points as diagrams…
…people’s right to
unionise
...how
we relate in politics
…how we make all
the wealth
And…
-
a
subsidiary work taken from
the full book. 208
pages. v.2023.10
(named The Right To Organise In Unions until June 2023)
It’s own website -
Buy it printed,
coil-bound for
easy reading, from
here….
'The
Right to Unionise' on Lulu.com
Ed McDonnell is a retired lecturer who
taught courses for
union workplace
reps/shop stewards and
has been
active in the labour movement and
class politics for fifty years, in the
UK.
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of website