Community Party Philosophy

Amongst the privileged class, that is the property owners, shareowners and business owners, an opinion exists that one’s own welfare is their own individual concern. Their mind senses that any single person has the power to become rich, propertied and therefore empowered and less of a burden.

It is their argument, so strongly advocated by the monetarist Milton Friedman and his many disciples, including Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and more recently the so-called New Labour Blairites, that the state should only concern itself with controlling money supply. At the same time they shun the Keynesian fiscal policy approach by alleging that the state cannot and must not take responsibility for the individual’s security and welfare, as that is interfering with the free market and, hence, impracticable, expensive and inefficient. We see a radical expansion of this thinking applied to such areas of sovereign responsibility as the Probation Service, National Health Service and general provision of administration in the Civil Service, whereby the state has or intends to relinquish involvement in favour of private capital.

Their motivation that the individual is responsible for their own welfare leads to their conclusion that the provision of health services and other services should be provided only to those people that cannot be held responsible for their plight. Their “safety-net” philosophy is, at-best, based-upon the primacy of individual responsibility to insure him or herself in some way against avoidable misfortune. At worst it is a motivation stirred by the pathetic belief that every person is a market entity and free to wilfully choose their path in life and thus avoid claiming state assistance by not partaking in activities such as driving fast, smoking, eating a poor diet and, even more despicably, merely by being poor.

Therefore, the privileged class admires the gain of wealth and the creation of capital. People who lack money and assets encourage fiscal spending and should, the privileged class say, strive to transform into self-sufficient individuals.

Our capitalist economy encourages the creation of individual improvement, whilst it actively discourages the uptake of and reliance on state-offered assistance. It is a way of thinking that has stained the very fabric of our governance. Through means testing a host of benefits such as housing, social security and access to medical provision the state and its agents employ the philosophy of the privileged class to limit social responsibility and consequently their own liability to popular criticism in the wake of corrupt business practices and incompetent management.

As Communists, we object to the philosophy of the privileged class and strive to create a society that protects the weak, helps the unfortunate and limits the power of those that would seek to exploit them. Our philosophy is that of the Community.