Whilst this political party is not yet official as an organisation since it has not yet been registered with the Electoral Commission SA nor with the Australian Electoral Commission, I’m in the midst of the very humble beginnings and inaugurations of a political party called The Workers and Small Business Party (‘WASBP’), and scaffolding its policy directives and ideological features. This party is to take the best of liberal capitalism and socialism. I’m dubbing this as a sophisticated-economy (‘S-E’). This is a political-economic neologism for and meaning cultivated and reconciled morality in action. It is, inter alia, an emergent, mediated template for, and embodies, ongoing, humane and careful political progression.
Herein, workers means both public and private employees. Small business is here designated as businesses having 100 or less workers employed therein.
In the short-run the aim is to foster better and fairer competition in the market through dissolving monopoly, duopoly and cartel capitalism. It is intended to have sister parties in all nations (eventually) as its internationalist directive. S-E is fundamentally about individual differences against spatial homogenisations of big business capitalism or the homogenisation in too much centralisation of state power – too much central planning in many self-professed ‘socialist’ regimes.
In the long-run, capitalist insidious classism is in the divisions between owners, managers, and workers. ‘Socialist’ insidious classism is in the divisions between planners, managers, and workers.
See my blog post on ‘What Went Wrong with the Russian Revolution’ for more engaged analysis hereon:
Some of the forces of ‘the hard left’, may be wondering why I am small business inclusive. In the short-term I am for supporting small business for six main reasons:
- We need to transition to a fully participatory society through a number of gradually implementing stages;
- We need the recognition that business owners of any sized business do some kinds of labour in order to maximize profits. Whilst surplus value extraction of workers’ labour happens more acutely in big business, small business owners, contrastingly on the other hand, de facto pay themselves a wage;
- Small business owners risk their own capital on the market and risk bankruptcy; this contrasts with workers who may enjoy more workplace liquidity in changing jobs;
- Many small business owners have taken out loans against their own property to kickstart and propel their businesses, becoming tied to the failure or success of their business; a commitment which may preclude themselves having a work-life balance, but working overtime, especially sole-traders or businesses with minimal employees/workers;
- In capitalism, there is fairer competition in the market with the edification of small business as opposed to where monopolies, duopolies and cartels rake in super-profits squeezing out ‘the little person’ (small business owners in these ways) – massive corporate economies of scale preclude the social mobility of the small business owner through more passive income generation through investment and buying up small businesses. Small business owners deploy more active income generation, whereas big business owners utilize vast and acute surplus value exploitation of employees / workers to generate more passive income *or “socialism” for the rich* through more passively extracting wealth as surplus value created by workers;
- Commodities in big business capitalism (not commodities in and of themselves) become homogenised, where as there would be more diversity and authentic artistry in product development and rendering of services with small business. Locales would reclaim their unique cultural identities tied to localized production as much as possible, by more honest competition through the small business ethos. Extrapolating from this, nations (with an edification of ‘the locale’) would claim their cultural imprint over most economic processes, giving a humanising territorial difference across nations.
https://www.1001freedownloads.com/free-clipart/eco-green-flag-icon
Currently unregistered with the Fair Work Commission, so not an official union or organisation, with only myself at present counting towards an unofficial and informal membership, there is an accompanying sister organisation to The Workers and Small Business Party (‘WASB Party’) also being seeded called the Alphas On Parade Union (‘AOP’ Union), inspired by the Rage Against the Machine song – Bulls On Parade, except making it gender-inclusive, for workers and small business owners (and any sized non-profit). I’m in the midst of scaffolding and fleshing out the ideological and pragmatic purview for political praxis as endowed through the union’s social and political functioning. The Union is charged with the task, along with other social justice organisations, with the goal of truly becoming great – the goal of indisputably becoming the best species on the planet, (and solar system as we know it!) 😀 😀 As a bit of fun, the Union and its members magically tap into and summon “the Alpha powers of the animal world”! Each individual member is encouraged to find their spirit animal / soul animal:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/animal-kingdom-tim-knepp.html
I’m also establishing a pro-feminist gendered Masculinity Collective Club (‘MCC’) for Alpha Males and aspiring Alpha Males. MCC defines an Alpha Male as one who is proficient in ability to reason, no matter what culture, ethnicity, race, class, or sexual orientation with which a given male may identify: Platonic Alphas, not Economic Alphas; caveat: some Economic Alphas are also Platonic Alphas; this definition (of Alphas) is inclusive of males and men compassionately enduring hardship, and non-ableist sacrosanctity. It’s designed to work cooperatively with Feminist Clubs and Collectives, with civil society at large, in humane gender dialectics and strengthening diverse gendered identities. The syllabus is broken down into manageable and digestible units I’m currently writing as educationals and as points of discussion on all issues affecting gendered expression and identity. I’m also establishing a reading-list. Furthermore, knowledge of masculinity is not anthropocentric and some units and recommended texts will look at and analyse masculinity in other non-human species particularly with regards to their reproductive strategies. Particularly of interest is how close human ancestors such as hominids’ and primates’ reproductive behaviours compares with masculinity in humans, who have technological and linguistic reflexivity to cooperate in an enlightened fashion. Importantly, MCC holds that reflexive enlightenment on gender by humans is paramount so that men cooperate better with men, men cooperate better with women, women cooperate better with men, and women cooperate better with women. MCC as a gendered stakeholder in humane, robust and fair knowledge-acquisition, as a mission statement, has this core ethical mandate at heart. The meta-knowledge premise by which the MCC proceeds is the equality of the sexes – non-binary inclusive, and equitable difference(s) between gendered classes of individuals under the umbrella of equality. Not better or worse, just Different!
MCC is for both transgender and cisgender men and males. In its design, routinely both factions will meet exclusively and together – an equal number of meetings exclusively and together – for both. MCC constitutes: Trans Masculine Collective Club (‘TMCC’) + Cis Masculine Collective Club (‘CMCC’), incorporating spectrum. The MCC is organised mainly around the biosocial (or indeed “social-bio“1) identity of AMAB (assigned male at birth) cis masculinists / cis men / cis males, AFAB (assigned female at birth), trans masculinists / trans men / trans males, as well as spectrum masculinity, are warmly welcome to attend meetings through membership, and/or by request and/or invitation to contribute in discussions and give presentations to the group attendees. MCC considers both trans men and cis men as sub-categories of men, as equal gendered stakeholders in society, as indeed the entirety of gender spectrum identities are inherently equal. For inclusion of feminist and/or trans feminists / trans women / trans females voices directly in MCC meetings in participation in discussions and to make presentations, this is open by request and/or invitation: this is both for feminists from feminist collectives, members and/or delegates of women’s only spaces, or any women without a collective membership in the two former organisational spaces. MCC encourages feminists to join feminist collectives and/or women’s only spaces. MCC, whilst an exclusive space in some way for masculinisms, it is not an exclusionary organisation in theory nor praxis, as it fosters gendered identity building explicitly to work in close cooperation with other gendered collectives and gendered identities in society at large. Trans and cis peoples are encouraged to form more exclusive spaces in organising and propelling collectives of their own to work with MCC and feminist collectives. Where appropriate teenage males (trans and cis) may attend tailored informational sessions on introducing the need for pro-feminism, pro-non-binary, and masculinism holistic, healthy interwoven identities, for better in good faith cooperation between the three, and a mutual strengthening.
https://zarathustra.tv/spirituali
- My views are are informed by Žižek’s formulations and belief – in his words – “disagreeing a bit with [Professor] Butler”, that gendered identity is simply an endless and/or wholly unconstrained “free-field” where we can constantly negotiate and re-negotiate our gendered identities, in a ‘post-modernism’. Rather, there is a scope to persistently posit at least on some level, gendered essences. Biological realities exert a force on identity, and informs it, not as determined, but as providing a partial dialectical scaffolding on subjective gendered identity and expressiveness. That is not to say that one cannot feel, and/or be in touch with, the latent residing ideal and/or archetypical and/or divine feminine, and/or non-binary, and/or masculine inside oneself. These can be dialed in at spectrums, or different percentage degrees of intensity, or switched on or off, at will, as ‘fleeting’ states of consciousness and ways of being-in-the-world, as adjunct to, and/or regardless of, the dominant gender biosocial identity of an individual. This does not repudiate the dominant gender identification of the individual, which – this dominant identity – is constituted by biology, society, and biology and society’s intermixing. ↩︎
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