Title
changed from Look At The System July 2020
‘The System’ Explained
And How We
Should Organise Society
by Ed McDonnell,
Lecturer teaching workplace union
representatives,
retired, active in politics and worker's
organisation in the UK
for fifty years.
The
introductory text, next, is the first section of
‘SysEx
– The Super Summary’, which is just below
the
introductory text, along with the other downloads.
Introductory
Text
‘It’s
the system’ - what shopfloor workers
always
said to this writer when he worked
in
industry and argued against the wealth
and
power of employers and the rich.
‘A lesson from the Obama years –
failure to
seize the opportunities offered by
the great
recession to reform an economic
system that
has worked against most Americans
for four
decades.’ (The Observer
17-1-2021)
It’s ridiculous, the state the
world is in.
It’s because people look to
politics for
all the answers instead of looking
at
the whole system. It results in
people
seeing politicians as the sole
problem
or, vaguely, ‘the swamp’ or
‘metropolitan
elites’.
But everything doesn’t come from
politics
and politicians. They don’t govern
all our
relationships and practices,
particularly
those in economic activity.
It’s the other way round – politics
emerges
from overall society, from the many
long-
established relationships where we
make
deals in business and work;
produce, buy
and sell; and, crucially, organise
to make
our living or make money – the
system.
Political rights to influence this
system are
important. But with so many
relationships
in the whole system, and political
rights
being (at best) amorphous and
insufficient,
they keep us at a distance from it.
What also does that is how the
system
is mystified as ‘capitalism’,
economics,
‘the economy’, and ‘free markets’.
Everyone thinks there are big
things wrong
with the system but without a clear
view of
it and its rights and wrongs, can’t
think and
act clearly. (For instance – the
huge disparity
in wealth. People accept the view
that the rich
earn their wealth from their own
efforts because
they don’t understand the process
that enables
them to take it from workers.)
And because we’ve not had a clear
view of
the system as a common reference
point
some, to find meaning in the world,
resort to
culture wars and crazy conspiracy
theories.
These works explain all this, not
with
academic talk of “-isms” but simply
by showing how we interact
ordinarily
as fellow-citizens.
They show how humanity can relate
fairly
and build a secure, sustainable
global society.
When you have the system clear in
your head,
it’s easier to cope with politics.
And life too.
The System Explained -
-
explains the system clearly,
-
relates it to daily experience
-
uses everyday language.
More
>>>> the introductory text continues in
a
1500 word summary of the book.
Other Key Free Downloads :
1.
SysEx - The Ten Minute Read Large.pdf
a 5,000 word summary
(large text for
phones/devices).
and SysEx - The Ten
Minute Read Normal.pdf
(small text)
the full book. A long read but just read
to page 27 and you get the basics.
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4(a) How To Talk Politics With Each Other.pdf
.
will help you discuss politics with others,
in large text for smart
phones/devices
4(b) How To Talk Politics In Normal Text.pdf
4(c)…
for progressive movements, a version
with a group activity to use in
meetings…
How
To Talk Politics With Voters.pdf
Short,
taster downloads from the book ...
(in large font to read on smartphones/devices;
to print, use the
copies in normal text in the full book)
Employers are organised - as businesses
and public bodies - and their organisation
is recognised in workplaces (obviously).
This piece shows how workers too are
entitled to have their organisation
recognised in workplaces.
… there is no ‘middle’ class –
there’s mainly
the business class and the worker class
…
that’s all nations are
... the myths about competence, spending and tax
Brexit,
Trump and Populism.pdf
… blame the business
class, not outsiders
... if people do as
these writings urge
One-page
Summary Charts
...
how we relate in politics
… people’s right to organize as
workers
It's Your Money Not Theirs.pdf
… how we make
all that wealth
The
Right To Organise In Unions.pdf
is an extract from the full book
180
pages, v.2021.5
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