Gorton, materialism, and the path ahead

There have been debates here recently concerning whether we should be more aligned with the left or the right of politics; which of these ultimately represents more promising ground for us as boylovers? I want to revisit this issue in the light of the results of yesterday's Gorton and Denton by-election in England, in which the Greens smashed both the Uniparty and the far right. I will begin with a few preliminaries about the election itself. This is all relevant to the issue of pederasty, as I shall make clear further along. The results were expected to be close, but it turned out not to be close at all. It's Caerphilly all over again: Greens 40.7 per cent Reform 28.7 Labour 25.4 All other candidates losing their deposits: Conservative 1.9 Liberal Democrats 1.8 Sir Oink-A-Lot 0.4 Others 1.0 This was a defeat engineered in No. 10. Andy Burnham would have won the seat if Starmer had allowed him to stand. The PM is now so afraid of a potential challenge that he is actually blocking the careers in the Labour Party of anyone with any ability or charisma. A party which accepts this state of affairs is clearly dying. As for the Tories, what can one say? When one finds oneself jostling for votes with Sir Oink-a-Lot, I think the time has come to recognise the writing on the wall. Reform are already, boringly, claiming electoral fraud, thus following the Trumpian rubbish that is their inspiration. They are also complaining that the vote was invalid because Muslims voted as a bloc. It reminds me of Bertolt Brecht: After the uprising of the 17th of June The Secretary of the Writers' Union Had leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee Which stated that the people Had squandered the confidence of the government And could only win it back By redoubled work. Would it not in that case Be simpler for the government To dissolve the people And elect another? For the Greens this is seismic. The Greens have enjoyed good poll ratings, but there were always those who would not vote Green because they were afraid of splitting the nominally left-wing vote and letting in Reform, and this was really the only argument that Labour could muster against the Greens; that, and Hypno-Boob. Now all they have is Hypno-Boob. The working class constituency of Gorton and Denton overwhelmingly rejected the right. Now, I have a question: If “a canny calculation” of their own interests is “always present” to the working class, does this apply when the working class decisively reject the right and vote for the far left, or does it apply only when the working class vote for the right? In this election, Matt Goodwin, the Reform candidate, led on culture war issues. Again, a lot has been made of the working class being anti-woke. This may well be true. But in fact the working class in this election rejected imported Yank culture war rubbish in its entirety, and actually voted for their material interests. Again, I must put the question, were they wrong to do so? I think not. (And, en passant, what could be more patronising to the working class than supposing that they would all vote as a bloc on the basis of intellectually vacuous Yank nonsense? It was the right who were patronising to the working class in this election, not the left.) The working class is not homogenous. This is where the Marxian perspective stands diametrically opposed to romantic “workerism”, which ascribes an infallibility to working class judgement. The former is materialist analysis; the latter is idealist fancy. Basically, the solution to our political confusion is to recognise the beauty of materialism. Now, on the eve of the election, the Daily Mail ran a piece on how the loony Greens want to remove restrictions on prostitution and pornography, as well as drugs. I quoted the relevant material recently on OtherChat. The Uniparty and the Right then condemned the Greens for their disgusting policies of letting people dispose of their own bodies as they like, with the Conservatives leaping to the defence of “vulnerable women” (the British right having become very feminist of late). If the Greens were elected to government, sex laws would clearly be very substantially liberalised. This would not give us what we want in terms of pederasty, but it would be a move in the direction of liberalisation, rather than in the opposite direction. Now I would argue that the direction of travel is the most significant thing here. The most promising development for us as pederasts has been in Brazil, and under a genuine left wing government it would surely be possible to appeal to the WHO definitions of youth and rights of youth in order to enlarge the Overton Window. This would also be more likely in a pluralistic society, in which people accept that there are different communities that have their own values, which is implied by the pro-migrant stance of the Greens. The development in Brazil was the result of neither left wing MAP activism nor of some conservative model of pederasty, but rather a more relaxed attitude towards sexuality that could encompass a recognition of the sexuality of the young. Is it not as clear as daylight that this is our best shot? This is our path, if anything is, and the first step is to create the preconditions for this. And we need also to break up this hideous concept of “the West”, and separate Europe from the US. The Greens are for total de-Yankification, and have an actual programme. They understand that if we were to throw the US military out now, the Yanks would respond with economic warfare, leading to the toppling of the government and the discrediting of the project. So the ground must be prepared first; economic resilience must be built up, and Britain must rejoin the EU. There is an intelligent analysis going on, a Machiavellian calculation of what has to be done. To me, it represents the most promising development in British politics in my lifetime (and I remember the late Queen's Silver Jubilee!).