Tweedle dumber or Tweedle dumbest

SOYMB awaits the outcome of the power-broking and wheelin' n dealin' that is presently taking place.

It appears that the Cameron Conservative faction of the Capitalist Party has managed to scale the heights ( or sort of more scrambled up there by the skin of their teeth ) . The voters have rewarded his and his party's adherence to capitalism. The real message of this election was the British electorate overwhelmingly expressed their support for the wages system's continuing existence. There is no fundamental difference between the Conservative and Labour or LibDem parties. Indeed, there is little if anything between them taking into account the factors they themselves think are important and distinguishing and that can be shown by how easy it is for the Tories or Labour to include LibDems in a power sharing alliance . That the problems of today tend to make one forget the problems of yesteryear cannot be denied. But anybody who remembers, or has read, the records of Conservative governments in the past, can only come to the conclusion that such an action must be a negative one based on the maxim "they can't be any worse than the present lot."

The wings of the capitalist party, left, right and centre, take up various positions within a narrow spectrum of opinion and debate, giving a superficial appearance of differences, adding to the semblance of a thriving democracy in line with bourgeois ideology. So close are their remedies for society's ills that they would be almost indistinguishable but for their talent for exposing the shortcomings of individuals. Indeed this has become the stock-in-trade of the body politic within the capitalist parties and the television exchanges aptly demonstrated this. A very nice turn of events to blame individuals and let the system ideology off scot-free, might say some.

Capitalist ideas dominate the political economic and social scene for the capitalist own and control the means of propagation, education, information and news. Thus, all discussion and debate is undertaken on their terms. It should be clear, then, that bourgeois ideology serves capitalist interests not only when it provides pro-capitalist solutions to pressing social problems but also when it confuses people, or makes them overly pessimistic and resigned, or makes it difficult for them to formulate criticisms or imagine alternative systems. A capitalist political party concerns itself with only those policies which bring in the votes. There is no need to try to appeal to anyone who is unable or unlikely to vote for them. That is the principle on which all governments operate.They do not inform us that capitalism is a system beyond human control, which inflicts the sufferings of poverty on its people as a matter of routine. Instead they care about things like the so-called dependency culture—which does not mean the ruling class depending on exploiting the rest of us to maintain their privileged position in society but a supposed addiction among unemployed workers to living on a starvation income.They do not confess that they are powerless to do anything, in any real sense, about capitalism and are in fact reduced to floundering about in futile reactions to its procession of crises. They do not, in other words, tell us that to support them is a waste of our power to change society in a fundamental and permanent way and that we should immediately stop voting for them and instead trust in our own ability.

Are the Conservatives any more “nasty” or “evil” than Labour? The answer is irrelevant. Both organisations (just like any others wishing to take over from them such as the LibDems ) are “nasty” parties in effect because they are attempting to run a thoroughly nasty system which pits human being against human being in a never-ending struggle for existence. Even if the Tories and the Labour Party had the best of intentions they would be unable to operate the system in any other way than that demanded by its internal logic. And its internal logic is what leads to the wealth of the privileged few being placed before the satisfaction of the needs of the many, to a crumbling society where community is destroyed by rampant individualism and competition, and to constant warfare across the world over trade routes, spheres of influence, power and profits. Hoping that the Conservative Party will now behave differently to Labour's “nasty party” is an unrealistic – indeed utopian – expectation. Any party that tries to run capitalism gets its hands grubby, as a matter of course, in what is a very dirty business.

One thing should be crystal clear from the recent history of British industrial relations and it is that whichever government is in power – Labour or Conservative, Left or Right – their observable tendency is to resist attempts by the organised working class to increase wages and salaries and improve conditions. No matter what they may say at other times, governments are there primarily to defend the interests of the owners and controllers of wealth in society – the people they call the “wealth creators” but who in actual fact merely accumulate the wealth and riches that are created by others, namely the working class.When governments talk about safeguarding the economy, they are really talking about safeguarding the people who own the economy.When the profits of the owning class are hit, the system ceases to function efficiently.

If the workers had voted in the 1997 election with proper recall of the experience of previous Labour governments they would never have put Tony Blair into Number Ten. In 2010, if they had remembered what their life had been like under past Tory governments they would not have put themselves up for another dose of it by electing Cameron . A capitalist party will make no difference to your quality of life. Only your own actions - the "self-activity of the working class" - can change the world.