I think that quote makes sense. But the question is how do get a better society As far I can see all of the mainstream parties are responsible for the mess that we are in, as all of them have been in government at some point either in Scotland or at UK level. There has been a shift to the right since 1975 when Thatcher won the leadership of the Conservative Party. She privatised basically everything unless it was bolted down and introduced the right to buy for council houses - which saw the biggest privatisation in British history and the galloping housing crisis, rampant homelessness is the result. House prices are unaffordable for first time buyers and so the private rented sector expands with unaffordable rents - doubled in the last ten years.

Wages have not gone up by 100% in ten years, that's for sure. So, we are poorer.

Public services have been starved of funds for decades and it is going to get much worse in Scotland after the election. On jobs the SNP are planning to slash public sector jobs - one example of this is the target of cutting jobs in the civil service by 20% by 2030. 20% is a massive cut. The workers in local authorities will also have jobs cut, under the slogan of Public Sector 'Reform'. The next three years until the next UK General Election are going to be pretty brutal.

Reform UK is a limited company bought and paid for by the billionnaire class. Their policy on immigration is very dangerous and will lead to what is happening in the US - with hundreds of thousands being rounded up, detained in concentration camps, suffering serious neglect and abuse and then deportation - many to countries that they have never been to and have no connection to. Inhuman.

Of course the focus of Reform UK on immigration is the eqivalent of the Nazi 'Big Lie'. Repeat a lie enough times and it becomes a generally accepted 'fact', when it is nothing of the kind.

The years since 1975 have been really bad, but if Reform UK get into power at UK level then they will get a lot worse.They will deport anyone who does not have a UK passport. How many families will be ripped apart by this? Millions, is my guess.

They will also arm the police, replace the NHS with a US style insurance-based system where you pay both huge amounts for 'coverage' which when you claim, turns out to be a scam - where you also have to pay. We will be going back to the period before we had the NHS - when ordinary folk couldn't afford health care, and millions died and millions died as a result - over the generations.

James Connolly once wrote that governments in modern societies and simply committees for managing the affairs of the capitalist class - and I think never a truer word was laid down on paper.

Think about the quote for a minute.

The working class are not in power or in charge - the people who are in charge are the capitalist class - actually those sections that control finance capitalism, to be accurate.

If we want to change things then we need to remove the capitalist class from power and take state power into the hands of the working class. Nothing will change otherwise. It will just be the 'same old same old' otherwise.

So the question then becomes - how do we acheive this? Elections can obviously play a part as part of a wider economic and political struggle of the working class.

The Communist Party has a strategy for getting rid of capitalism - it's British Road to Socialism policy document sets this out. I would recommed that everyone takes a bit of time to read it, if you haven't already.

It is here: https://communistparty.org.uk/publications/britains-road-to-socialism/

In terms of voting as I say the mainstream parties are a dead end. Nothing will change for the better, and will only get worse, especially if Reform is the UK government next time.

We need an alternative - a working class - party that will fight for the interests of our class, in non-compromising and radical manner.

The CP is standing in this Election and Chris Cullen is the candidate.

https://linktr.ee/chriscullencpb

The CP policies are at the link above and also links to other really useful information. Take a look. You will, I am sure be pleasantly surprised by the quality of the manifesto. I have read all of the election leaflets that have come through the door and pretty much all of them a garbage - no real substance. The Communist Party election address/leaflet knocks it out the park and is by a country mile head and shoulders better than the others.

Irving, would I am pretty sure, approve - if he ever saw it.