{"id":5,"date":"2017-07-04T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecommoncause.net\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2020-12-15T00:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T00:53:50","slug":"on-teaching-british-mps-the-fundamental-fact-of-life-that-love-makes-the-world-go-round","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecommoncause.net\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"Workers and students of the world unite \u2014 there is no planet B!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Workers and students of the world\nunite \u2014 there is no planet B!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is now beyond rational dispute that, in round\nfigures, earth\u2019s inorganic solar system evolved from the pre-existing universe\n5 billion years, that earth\u2019s organic ecosystem of independent plant and animal\nspecies evolved from pre-existing inorganic material on earth 3 billion years\nago, that human social systems evolved from earth\u2019s pre-existing ecosystem 0.2\nmillion years ago, and that all organic life on earth will cease to exist in 4\nbillion years when earth\u2019s solar system reaches the natural end of its lifecycle\nand disintegrates, regardless of the degree of intelligence of any species on\nearth at that time.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is now beyond rational dispute that, since the beginning of industrial\nrevolution, only a tiny fraction of all the heat generated by humankind\u2019s increasingly\nindustrialised combustion of fossil fuels has dissipated (the residue is stored\nin earth\u2019s imperceptibly overheated oceans), and the total size of humankind\u2019s populations\nhas been growing perceptibly and unsustainably at the expense of the total population\nsizes of all other intelligent species. It is now beyond rational dispute\nthat the viability of earth\u2019s ecosystem of interdependent\nplant and animal species has been <\/a>prejudiced by irrational human\nactivity.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millions of pre-university students <\/a>are beginning\nto recognise for themselves that academic institutions throughout the world are\nnot fit for their rational purpose \u2014 teaching young people how to maintain the viability\nof earth\u2019s ecosystem of interdependent plant and animal species without prejudice\nuntil earth ceases to exist. It is now beyond rational dispute that unless academic\ninstitutions throughout the world set themselves the collective task of teaching\nyoung people how to manage the viability of earth\u2019s ecosystem without prejudice\nuntil earth ceases to exist, the natural conditions necessary for the survival of\nintelligent life on earth will cease to exist prematurely.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kepler<\/a>\nwas the first person to speculate about the disintegration of earth\u2019s solar\nsystem at the end of its natural lifecycle, but it was Newton<\/a>\nwho first proved it. Newton used newly-engineered instruments to prove for the\nfirst time what is widely known today \u2014 that every extra-terrestrial galaxy and\nsolar system in the known universe has a lifecycle which will end with its natural\npredictable unpreventable disintegration, just like the lifecycle of every\norganism in earth\u2019s evolving ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kant<\/a>\nwas the first person to speculate about the geopolitical implications of Newton\u2019s\nmathematical proof of the predictable end of the lifecycle of earth\u2019s \u2018mechanical\u2019\nsolar system in his 1755 thesis Universal Natural History and Theory\nof the Heavens or An Essay on the Constitution and the Mechanical Origin of the\nEntire Structure of the Universe Based on Newtonian Principles<\/em><\/a>.\nIn his 1781 Critique of Pure Reason<\/em><\/a>\nand all his subsequent works, Kant challenged the theological orthodoxy of the\nsupernatural patriarchal creation and eternal existence of intelligent life on\nearth. Wealthy Christian autocracies ignored Kant\u2019s\nscientific reasoning because it challenged their inheritable right to be wealthy\nand wage profitable wars at other people\u2019s expense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long before Darwin<\/a>\npublished his 1859 geopolitical racist thesis On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural\nSelection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life<\/em><\/a>,\nKant published his 1784 thesis Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan\nPurpose<\/em><\/a>. In his introduction, Kant argued \u201cSince the [scholar] cannot presuppose any [conscious] individual purpose\namong men in their great drama, there is no other expedient for him except to\ntry to see if he can discover a natural purpose in this idiotic[sic] course of things\nhuman. In keeping with this purpose, it might be possible to have a history\nwith a definite natural plan for creatures who have no plan of their own . . .\n. We wish to see if we can succeed in finding a clue to such a history; we\nleave it to Nature to produce the man capable of composing it. Thus Nature\nproduced <\/em>Kepler<\/em><\/a>, who subjected, in an unexpected way, the eccentric paths of\nthe planets to definite laws; and she produced Newton, who explained these laws\nby a universal natural cause.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his 1783 Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will\nBe Able to Present Itself as a Science<\/em><\/a><\/strong>,\nKant speculated that his \u2018metaphysical\u2019 geopolitical thesis of the mathematically-predictable\n\u2018mechanical\u2019 destruction of the solar system would only be accepted as\n\u2018scientific\u2019 when the evolutionary processes which first created human life on\nearth, and which subsequently created Kepler and Newton, have also created a cosmopolitan\ngeneration of people throughout the world with sufficient prescience of the\ninevitable natural extinction of human life on earth to be able prevent its premature\noccurrence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nhis 1784 essay Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?<\/em><\/a>\nKant likened enlightenment to humankind\u2019s adolescence \u2014 the season in the life\nof every highly intelligent social animal on earth when it outgrows its na\u00efve\nunderstanding of its unending life, and realises that its enjoyment of social\nlife until its inevitable end is conditional on socially preventing its premature\noccurrence without fear or favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nhis 1785 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals<\/em><\/a>,\nKant defined the \u201ccategorical\nimperative<\/a>\u201d as the natural human impulse to \u201cAct in such a way that you treat humanity,\nwhether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means\nto an end, but always at the same time as an end.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his 1795 Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Kant repudiated\nwar on any pretext<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. No\ntreaty of peace shall be regarded as valid, if made with the secret reservation\nof material for a future war<\/em><\/li>
  2. No\nstate having an independent existence shall be acquired by another through\ninheritance, exchange, purchase or donation<\/em><\/li>
  3. Standing\narmies shall in time be totally abolished<\/em><\/li>
  4. No\nnational debts shall be contracted in connection with the external affairs of the\nstate<\/em><\/li>
  5. No\nstate shall use armed force to interfere with the constitution or government of\nanother state<\/em><\/li>
  6. 6.  \nNo\nstate shall, during war, permit such acts of hostility which would make mutual\nconfidence in the subsequent peace impossible.<\/em><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Like Kant, Hegel<\/a>\nrecognised that the recreation of human life on earth until its natural extinction\nis predicated on eradicating the religious misconception of mankind\u2019s original supernatural\npatriarchal creation. Unlike Christian professor Kant who distinguished\nhimself from his peers by repudiating any premeditated use of violence anywhere\non any pretext, liberal professor Hegel justified Napoleon\u2019s use of violence to overthrow\nreligious institutions because they self-serving and undemocratic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Like Kant but unlike Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach<\/a>\nrecognised that, throughout the existence of universities, liberal professors\nhave found some pretext to justify private wealth and public violence. In his <\/strong>1843 <\/strong>Principles\nof Philosophy of the Future<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Christian professor Feuerbach predicted\nthat so long as liberal professors justify <\/a>private wealth and profitable wars<\/a>, there will be no global justice or peace\nuntil everybody in the world recognises that their enjoyment of life on earth\nuntil its unpreventable end is predicated on repudiating\nprivate wealth and preventing any collective use of violence anywhere on any\npretext<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In a collection of essays written in\n1846 but not published until 1932 under the title The German Ideology<\/em><\/a>, Marx<\/a> and Engels<\/a>\nanalysed the ramifications <\/a>of most German university\nprofessors justifying the use of military force in the cause of German <\/a>democracy. In 1848 Marx and Engels published their geopolitical\n<\/strong>Communist\nManifesto<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\nbased on their analysis of the German university-educated intelligentsia\u2019s support\nfor the use of military force in the cause of German national democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After the 1848\nliberal revolutions<\/a>, outspoken critics of private\nwealth and profitable wars in the cause of national democracies risked imprisonment\nor worse. Feuerbach retreated into obscurity. Marx joined Engels in Britain, where\nhe became history\u2019s most trenchant critic of all profiteering, collective injustice\nand the use of military force, putting himself and his family at risk of legal\nphysical abuse by agents of the British monarchy determined to perpetuate its self-aggrandising\nuniversity-validated increasingly-industrialised global military seizure of the\nmeans to sustain its imperial self, in\ndefiance of all moral, rational and scientific reason<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Unlike scientifically enlightened students of Kepler, Newton\nand Kant, self-serving liberal students of Darwin argued that white regimes are\nentitled to use military force to survive as defenders of the\n\u2018fittest\u2019 human race. In 1861, white American slave owners declared war to defend\ntheir right to own black people with the same racist self-righteousness that justified\nthe slaughter\nof 100 million indigenous Americans<\/a> with impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Trade unions emerged in Britain at the beginning of the industrial\nrevolution when only property-owning men could vote in parliamentary elections.\nMarx and Engels recognised the geopolitical significance of the democratic egalitarian nature of trade unions <\/a>compared\nwith the injustice of national parliamentary systems which only represent the common\ninterests of property owning men.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1864, they founded the International\nWorkingmen’s Association<\/a> (commonly called the First International).\nIts purpose was to develop the recognition\nin the newly-formed trade unions in the most industrialised nations of the world\nthat the enjoyment of human life on earth until its natural end is predicated on\nthem repudiating all social injustice and preventing any use of use of\nindustrialised military force not only against themselves, but against anybody anywhere on any pretext<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The\nParis Commune<\/a>\nin 1871 was the only attempt to form a government guided by Marx. It failed to\nwin enough support and was brutally crushed by the French National Guard \u2014\n20,000 men, women and children were slaughtered with impunity. Bakunin<\/a>\nconvinced most First International members to support workers\u2019 use of armed force\nin their struggle against their armed oppressors. Marx argued that the Commune\nfailed to win support because too few people trusted its leaders to govern\nwithout violence. Marx\nwound up the First International in 1876 rather than leave it in the hands of\nBakunin and his philosophically misguided followers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    By\nthe time of Marx\u2019s death in 1883, the leaders of the 1880 Socialist\nInternational<\/a> (commonly called the Second\nInternational<\/a>) had capitulated to liberal demands for colonial wars \u2018in\nthe national interest\u2019 whilst calling\nthemselves Marxists<\/strong>. By then, Engels had already repudiated their self-serving\nmisrepresentation of the anti-racist inclusive philosophy of Marx in his 1880 Socialism: Utopian and Scientific<\/em><\/a>.\nIn this, Engels noted \u201cAs Kant introduced\ninto natural science the idea of the ultimate destruction of the Earth, <\/em>Fourier<\/em><\/a>\nintroduced into historical science that of the ultimate destruction of the human\nrace<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In\nFebruary1884, the colonial Scramble\nfor Africa<\/a> culminated in the Berlin conference<\/a>. As Feuerbach, Marx and Engels had anticipated,\nthe pretentious right of mutually hostile \u2018enlightened\u2019 liberal nations states\nto wage profitable racist wars over the finite means necessary to sustain all life\non earth until its predictable natural end was unrepudiated by any international\norganisation of university professors or their prot\u00e9g\u00e9s or people calling themselves Marxists<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Later that year, using unpublished manuscripts left by Marx,\nEngels explained in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and\nthe State<\/em><\/a> that institutionalised\npoverty, prostitution and profitable wars persist because state institutions staffed\nby self-serving prot\u00e9g\u00e9s of the world\u2019s oldest universities continue to justify\nthe patriarchal accumulation of private wealth and military conflict in the\ncause of liberal enlightenment, in defiance\nof all moral, rational and scientific reason<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In\nhis 1886 <\/strong>Ludwig Feuerbach\nand the End of Classical German Philosophy<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Engels reiterated his rational\ncondemnation of Second International leaders\u2019 irrational capitulation to demands\nfor profitable colonial wars \u2018in the national interest\u2019 whilst calling themselves Marxists<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Engels did not join the Second International. After Marx\u2019s\ndeath, he worked with Eleanor Marx<\/a>\non completing the four-volume Das Kapital<\/em><\/a> and founding the 1885 internationalist\nSocialist\nLeague<\/a> with William Morris. Engels\ncriticised Morris for failing to understand that what Engels called \u2018scientific\nsocialism\u2019 is not an idealist aspiration or an authoritarian ideology, but the scientifically-enlightened collaborative\nmethod for consciously governing the planned recreation of convivial intelligent\nspecies on earth until their predictable collective unconditional natural extinction<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    By\n1914, most university-educated people accepted the need for \u201ca war to end all\nwars\u201d including most people who called\nthemselves Marxists<\/strong>. With cynical hypocrisy, most leaders who identified\nthemselves Christians or Marxists<\/strong> claimed\nthat since \u2018right\u2019 was on \u2018their\u2019 side, the planned slaughter of millions of\npeople on the \u2018other\u2019 side was righteous and necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201c<\/a>The total number of military and civilian casualties\nin World War I was more than 38 million: there were over 17 million deaths and\n20 million wounded, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.<\/em><\/a>\u201c<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1917 the Bolsheviks ended the Tsar\u2019s military oppression\nof a tenth of the world\u2019s mainly agricultural populations. Liebknecht<\/a>\nand Luxemburg<\/a>\nwere the leading socialist critics of Second International leaders\u2019 support for\nwar to end war; they helped organise the 1919 revolt against the allied victors\u2019\ncollective punishment of German men, women and children, but they were both\nassassinated in the chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Lenin<\/a>\nformed the 1919 Communist International (commonly called the Third\nInternational<\/a>) to rally support from workers\u2019 organisations throughout\nthe world. However, because of the confusion caused by the hostility of the\nSecond International leaders, the military crushing of the Irish and German\nrevolts and the self-righteous \u2018survival of the richest\u2019 nationalism broadcast\nby public institutions and privately-owned media staffed by university-educated\neconomically-advantaged men, most trade unionists carried on \u2018business as\nusual\u2019 in the rest of the world. The League of\nNations<\/a> was formed in 1920 to oppose the Third International.Lenin\ndenounced it as a \u201cthieves\u2019 kitchen\u201d<\/a> because it validated British,\nFrench, Japanese and US military incursions into the USSR. It also entrenched\nEuropean racism by dividing German African colonies amongst the richest European\nstates.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The creeping corruption in the egalitarian multi-cultural\nUSSR was dwarfed by the state-enforced racism and media popularised sexism and anti-trade\nunion gang violence for profit in the USA. The 1929 Wall Street banking collapse\nplunged all industrialised countries into crisis. Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and <\/strong>Stalin<\/strong><\/a> began ordering the assassination of\ntheir opponents with impunity. Regimes which had slaughtered millions of an earlier\ngeneration in a \u2018war to end all wars\u2019 began planning the industrialised annihilation\nof millions and millions of their children with the overwhelming approval of\nthe world\u2019s university-educated people, including\nmost people who called themselves Marxists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The 1929 Wall Street banking collapse\nplunged all industrialised countries into crisis. Regimes which had slaughtered\nmillions of an earlier generation in a \u2018war to end all wars\u2019 began planning the\nindustrialised annihilation of millions and millions of their children, with\nthe overwhelming approval of the world\u2019s university-educated people\u201d including\nmost people who called themselves Marxists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201c<\/a>Over 60 million people were killed in World War II,\nwhich was about 3% of the 1940 world population.<\/em><\/a>\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Trotsky<\/a>\nrisked his life by warning of the global catastrophic consequences of the corruption\nof the self-serving Soviet hierarchy. He founded the Fourth\nInternational<\/a> in 1938 with a few dozen co-thinkers under the\nmost difficult circumstances imaginable, since Stalin\nwas by then organising the killing of his most outspoken socialist critics\nanywhere in the world whilst calling\nhimself a Marxist<\/strong>. After many attempts, Trotsky was assassinated in 1940 by\nan agent of Stalin in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Although white people won the right\nto vote throughout the US in 1920, black people were denied it until 1964.\nAfter the 2 million deaths in the racist Biafran oil war<\/a>\nand a further 2 million deaths preceding the previously-inconceivable defeat of\nUS forces in the racist Vietnam\nwar<\/a>, oil-exporting states began challenging US hegemony. In 1972\nNixon was forced to cancel the\nBretton Woods system of global fiscal management<\/a>,\ndepriving the US of its UN-approved militarily-enforced debt collection revenues,\nand depriving all the banks and corporations in the world of any rational basis\nfor evaluating the equity of any inter-currency forecasts, plans or\ntransactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1973, the previously-inconceivable military overthrow of a\ndemocratically-elected white government opposed to US hegemony was contrived in\nChile, paving the way to the previously-inconceivable publicly acclaimed and funded\nCIA efforts to undermine any democratically elected government opposed to US\nhegemony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Just as Kant and Feuerbach warned, the self-aggrandising\nself-righteous self-serving university-educated white liberal intelligentsia has\ncontinued to find some pretext to justify private wealth and profitable wars, and\nthe world is suffering the consequences. Just as Engels wanted, the proliferation\nof self-serving mutually-hostile national \u2018Marxist\u2019 organisations that began\nbefore Marx died has been prejudicing the geopolitical education of trade\nunionists ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Whether the UN or some other yet-to-be-created coherent\nmulti-national compassionate organisation will be able to mobilise enough scientifically\nenlightened students and organised workers throughout the world to prevent the\npremature extinction of intelligent life on earth remains to be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Political activists who don\u2019t know\ntheir Kant from their Hegel need to brush up their Feuerbach.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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