Brecht's message of universal humanism. Mensch ist Mensch. Workerism and welfare
Brecht was the inspiration for Gorbachev's "universal human values".
Universal humanism has been sadly absent from post-Fall international diplomacy as millions of deaths at the hands of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse prove.
Internally to Western society,special pleading and whining and pining has taken the place of international peace and nuclear disarmament movements to the advantage of state medicine.
In the United States and Britain,imperialist booty and treasure flowing into the state coffers enables extraordinarily generous social spending.
This phenomenon has in turn led to political opportunism and workerism.
Workerism claims that only blue collar work in factories and on building sites is worthy of remuneration and respect.
Workerism brings indentured labour for the unemployed and the return of the relation of seigneur and bondsman.
That contraption of work and enforced labour I suffered for twelve years.
That servitude brings back some reminiscences of the Southern police-vigilantee-headman system of workerism.
That preceded my years of indentured labour.
In 1990,much to the chagrin of the British headman of the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed, I revealed at Annual Conference that Unemployment Assistance was 25% of the Southern Average Industrial Wage. This spy shouted me down.
It is no thanks to Mike Allen,later a Labour TD that Unemployment Assistance was raised to 30% of the Average Industrial Wage as I demanded at that INOU National Conference.
The old nationalist lickspittle,Sean Healy of the Conference of Religious in Ireland claimed the credit for my discovery.
Like every dog in the manger, he haunted the sidestreets of Dublin.
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In the North the Catholic Church brazenly claims the credit for the achievements of the British Welfare State, developments which it resisted with every fibre of its being.
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The pendulum has swung too far in favour of the disabled in the North of Ireland.
In Britain, Thatcher's brutal and barbaric dictates and hatred for the blue collar worker and poor still prevail . The welfare 'screening' of 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor is driving many of the poor to suicide.
Let us have unhindered access to welfare and social security in Britain.
Let needless bureaucracy be kept to a minimum.
Continental comparisons
Bureaucracy consumed the wealth of Germany between 1989 and 2005 and dragged German society and pensioners, disabled and workers into a deathly crisis.
Bureaucracy has the potential to do in the same Britain.
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Change.A time for change
I ask trade union leaders to step up to the plate and take the necessary action to secure higher wages for their members.
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The South,a comparison
In the South,there is a different social environment for skills and trades.
There you will find OUTRIGHT WORKERISM,the lionization of what the Germans call ,,ein Kraftarbeiter".
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The pendulum must swing towards the poor in the South of Ireland and Britain and towards the worker in the North. In the North,we have heard too much about the ECONOMICALLY INACTIVE and not enough about the working man and hard-pressed local government worker and shop assistant.
Enough of the whingeing about Troubles victims and nationalist trauma sufferers. That talk is for the birds and bees. The main source of trauma emanates from government employees of the NHS, policemen and the ubiquitous roaming gangs of state vigilantees.
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The NHS is an obstacle to change.
Let us have a curtailment of Freudian psychoanalysis and cult installations.
Greater compassion for the down-at-heel,the stranger and the foreigner and compassion for the genuine and deserving poor is called for in Britain.
In the North of Ireland,a kick up the arse for layabouts and hangers-on coming and going to Sinn Fein offices is needed.
England?
More open-ended access to welfare benefits because we do not want any more welfare claimants to die.
I sign myself,
Joseph Paul Mc Carroll LL B
(Author of the plan for the end of the Soviet Union,the domination of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,the break-up of the Eastern Bloc and German Reunification, July-August 1988, Dublin)
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