To the Reader

In 2016, the British people voted for the Brexit, meaning the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU, certainly a crucial vote against German domination and European regulating bureaucracy at the beck and call of big capitalists from all over the world. Marxists and Communists all over the world had grounds to rejoice.

However, four years later, in 2020, on occasion of the Corona policies, the masses did not stand up, not in Britain and not anywhere else in the world. This passivity is surprising given that the Corona policies certainly dealt a series of major blows to the working class, think only of the expansion of work from home, the Covid pass as a prerequisite for work and study and for entering public places, the restrictions on public gatherings, and the exorbitant profits for digital, pharma and logistics empires as opposed to the knock-out for many small and medium businesses and their workers’ livelihoods!

Why did the masses world-wide not seize the moment to brush away the capitalist oligarchs and deal the final blow to the unjust, undemocratic, and anti-environmental system? My hypothesis is that people are simply unsure whether they can organise society themselves. My books, of which this is the 23^rd, try to dispel these self-doubts by outlining a system of self-organisation and ecological reform that could withstand the test of time.

Carla O’Gallchobhair