A simple website, just a platform for free downloads
and links. Not what we expect these days, but the
writer
spends his time improving the content of the .pdf’s,
which matters more. He never gets to find out how
to make the website work more like it maybe could.
(The large text on PCs works best for smartphones.)
‘The System’
Explained
and How
To Make It Fairer
An analysis of how the world is run,
written by Ed McDonnell (see end of
page)
Free download copies
and links to printed
copies are below this
introductory text….
There’s a lot wrong with the world.
Most people think politicians run it
and look to them to fix things and
make it work. They think they aim to
operate in everyone’s best interests.
That is misleading. The world runs
by a larger system. Politicians don’t
make this system. It
makes them.
They come from it and represent
different groups in it.
And they mostly leave it alone.
Conservatives believe in not
running this system. They claim it
works better, for everybody, when
left unregulated by government.
But the system grants business people,
the business class, privileges over
everybody else that allow unfair basic
relationships, many cruelties, and
absurdly unequal distribution of
power and wealth.
Conservatives claim it works best
for everybody, unregulated, because
they represent the business class.
(And are usually members of it).
‘Laissez-faire’ – the classic conservative
argument – is class-serving crap that
denies democratic control of the most
important issues in public life.
When we vote
conservatives out,
for parties
who genuinely want to
govern in
everyone’s interests,
they are
constrained by the system.
They can’t
do what’s needed because
the business
class organise the
economy –
goods, services, jobs –
and so they
defer to them. It’s our fault
as well - we
too accept how the system
grants the
business class power. We
don’t give
progressive parties enough
support to
put them into government
with the
backing to regulate the business
class and
the (their) business system.
Just how the
business class, a self-
centered,
uncaring minority, are able
to dominate
everybody else is not widely
known or
talked about. So the majority,
who are
mostly workers, don’t make
sense of how
they are treated and don’t
represent
themselves well in the wider
system and
in politics.
They allow
conservative parties to get
into
government, where they protect,
and refuse
to regulate, this system,
in which
business people are allowed
the
authority to oppose and neglect
the
interests of the majority.
And wreck
our habitat.
It's all
because we don’t have a clear
view of the
system as the core of our
political ideas and actions. We need a
clear, commonly-held understanding
of this larger system, how its basic
feature is that business people
dominate everybody else, and
how they do it.
The key is
to recognize the main
economic and
political issue as
business-class
supremacy over
the rest
(white, black and brown);
that they
have it because they
organise themselves;
that the rest
must
organise themselves too, to
match them,
at work and in politics.
Here, The Super Summary of the work -
The
Super Summary.pdf v. 2022.6M
just 2,500 words,
in large text for phones/devices
5,000 words, in large
text for phones/devices.
And here, the full book
v.2023.1
At over 200,00 words, a
big read for a big subject.
But just get to page 33, that includes the
summaries
The Super Summary and The Ten Minute Read,
and you get the basics. (You can print normal-
size copies of the summaries from here.)
Buy the full book,
printed, now coil-bound
for easy reading, from here...
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ed-mcdonnell/the-system-explained/paperback/product-2ev2qd.html
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
organize as workers
...how
we relate in politics
…how we make all
the wealth
And…
The Right To Organise In Unions.pdf
-
key
extracts from the full book.
208 pages. v.2022.9
(also has its own
website
Buy it printed, now
coil-bound for easy reading,
from here….
Ed McDonnell is a retired lecturer.
He has been active in class politics
for fifty years (in the
UK). He taught
courses for union
workplace reps/shop
stewards.
End
of website