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Friday, March 07, 2008

The BNP On Class

Only a short post again today, I'm still really busy at the moment.

I was just looking over at local thug and fascist Clive Jefferson's blog as I sometimes do. It's usually good for a laugh, usually how the BNP has triumphed over the liberal left and the communists because they've had a couple of letters printed in the local press. But today he has a review on the newsnight that was on last night that was linked in with the white working class thing they are doing at the moment. I missed it because I was at work but Jefferson's revue is interesting. He goes off on a rant about how we are not equal. I can agree with this, we are obviously not equal, there are people living on the streets, there are un-employed, there are single, working class parents on minimum wage and then there are the likes of Royal family, the over payed MP's, Nick Griffin etc. But what Jefferson seems to be arguing is that there isn't really anything wrong with this. This is part of the core of any fascist party.

Fascism doesn't necessarily have to be racist. The BNP use racism as a means of distracting from the class issue and by spouting off mildly socialist rhetoric, they are able to seem the natural party of the working class but as Jefferson has shown, the BNP have no interest in the working class whatsoever. By using this superficial image of an anti-system party they are also able to steal the platform of any genuine opposition from the left. The enemy of fascism aren't the blacks Asians or Jews. They're just used to make it easier to blame something on that's a result of social divisions. The real enemy of fascism is a class conscious worker.

It seems that the BNP may have changed their image to the representatives of the working class but they haven't changed there beliefs. We only have to look at quotes from ex-senior members of the BNP to see their true feelings to the working class.

Tony Lecomber - "The rich are genetically superior to the poor".
Simon Smith - "I'm no apologist for white working class scum"
- "White working class scum will be swept away by a future BNP government."

The only way to fight against class divides is to fight as one class. Strikes, riots and revolution is the way, not voting for some pompous Nazi thugs.

2 comments:

Leftwing Criminologist said...

hi jonathan - good post

a very public sociologist said...

Well said comrade. We might have something up about the White season over the next few days. In the mean time here's an old piece I wrote on fascism and the white working class here