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50 Days to Save the Planet Swimming Up Stream

➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture

My global perspective

Clive Burgess ©2012


Men can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion or anything else you like. They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of subsistence, a step which is conditioned by their physical organisation. By producing their means of subsistence men are indirectly producing their actual material life.

First Premises of Materialist Method

Karl Marx. The German Ideology. 1845

Clive Burgess ©Oct 2012


CONSUMERISM The Smiley face of State/Monopoly Capitalism

Evil C C live

Exposing the PLAN


THE BIG SOCIETY


Exposing the PLANPBOG the sociology of organisational life focuses on one aspect of social reality

Relationships → Control & Resistance → ← Reproduction & Transformation← Activities CONFLICT & The Class Struggle

“This is a systemic crises of a form of capitalism that has broken free of society and democracy. Financialised capital has shaken off responsibility not just to society but the wider economy”. Jon Cruddas & Andrea Nahies – Short pamphlet – Compass & Friedrich Ebert Foundation

I think capital now controls most of the economic processClive Burgess ©Oct 2012


The Man with a PLAN → Cameron → Blair → Major → Thatcher

Liberal Democratic Ideology → Neo-Liberalism

Exposing the PLAN

Strategy:➔ to control key parts of the public infrastructure, transport, energy,

communications, and the [citizen's] welfare state infrastructure, using such things as Public Private Partnerships (PPP), Social Investment Funds (SIF), Corporate Social Responsibility or Corporate Citizen and Sustainable Development.

➔ Emerging social investment market + Green Bank? - the green economy?➔ Organised mechanism to gain more power and control in the economy

Clive Burgess ©2012 Dexter Whitfield 2012


COMMUNITIESHubs, Cluster

IncubatorsNetworks

Includes: Welfare – Social Services National Health ServiceNational Care ServicePrison Services -ProbationPensions cut or reducedChild Poverty Target Changed

EDUCATIONEMPLOYMENT

Costs escalatingWages dropping

HOUSING BUILT ENVIRONMENT

TRANSPORTINFRASTRUCTURE

ECONOMYDouble Dip Recession

Includes:Fresh waterFlood defenceFood productionForests & WoodlandsCoastlineFunding Cut

NATIONAL SECURITYIncludes:Armed ForcesPolice, Fire, Ambulance, Coastal Services

BUSINESS CAPTURE of Sustainable Development

INTERNATIONALINVESTMENT

ENVIRIONMENT

HEALTH & WELLBEING

ENERGYIncludes:Fuel Security Prices increasedFuel Poverty Target Changed

Exposing the PLAN Localism - Self-regulation – Empowerment?



Exposing the PLANAim➔ To reduce the role of the state➔ To change public values and expectations of public

services and [citizen's] welfare stateObjectivesTo transfer more power➔ 1 – from the state to capital➔ 2 – from employee to employer➔ 3 – from service user to private contractor



Exposing the PLAN ~ Liberal Democratic Ideology ~ The Mask➔ Community budgets➔ Participative budgeting➔ Big society➔ Voluntary sector contracting➔ Mutuals➔ Social enterprises

This will be 'celebrated' but will only be mainstreamed if benefit a minority. They will be 'tolerated' because, in parallel, capital is gaining control of a far larger share of public and [citizen's] welfare state provision. Deregulation is used to weaken unions and community organisations, and marginalise other civil organisations.



Exposing the PLAN The Big Society Rhetoric

“Big society” rhetoric is all too often heard by many as aspirational waffle designed to conceal a deeply damaging withdrawal of the state from its responsibilities to the most vulnerable'

Faith in the Public Square, Rowan Williams Arch Bishop of Canterbury, quoted in The Observer 24 July 2012


THE BIG SOCIETY


Exposing the PLAN ~ Risk Management➔ *Transferring risk, cost and responsibilities to individuals.➔ *Strict regulations on Trades Union activities are designed to

maintain managers 'right to manage' ➔ The Hidden Persuaders – double speak➔ Selling a sense of power – personalisation – individualism

“Take control of your life” “Freedom” etc➔ Selling a sense of unity, community involvement and

participation. “We’re all in this together” “social action” etc➔ Selling the dream! Consumerism the smiley face of

State/Monopoly Capitalism Clive Burgess ©2012 *Dexter Whitfield 2012


Exposing the PLAN ~ The Mutation of PrivatisationMy Dad is getting me a new book Research Report number 5? July 2012 Dexter Whitfield Slide Share to follow once I have read and digested it.The Deconstructing of Democracy – Slide Share to followPBOG the sociology of organisational life focuses on one aspect of social reality

Activities →Control & Resistance → ← Reproduction & Transformation ← Relationships CONFLICT & The Class Struggle



Exposing the PLAN*Real engagement and 'empowerment remain a fantasy concept. The Coalition promotes a form of 'social action' in which individuals, volunteers, charities, community groups and voluntary organisations act as 'change agents' to change individual or group behaviour and lobby for local politics. It is far removed from grassroots organising, education and action.

PBOG the sociology of organisational life ~ focus on one part of a dialectic process of social reality Activities →Reproduction & Transformation ← Relationships

Clive Burgess ©2012 *Dexter Whitfield 2012 ^


Exposing the PLANActivity – 'Social Action'

➔ PLAN- Strategy : individuals, charities etc used as 'Change Agents'

➔ BEHAVIOUR Changing peoples patterns of behaviour by promoting 'social action'

➔ ORGANISATION Look at the patterns of ownership➔ GUIDELINES ~ Network Multi-Media ~ The Hidden Persuaders

“Sticking to the script” “Singing from the same hymn sheet” “Learning you lines to play your Part” Using jokes about “elf and Safety” “The railways always ran late when they were Nationalised” “How many council workers does it take”...etcetera Changing words from Social Security to Welfare Benefit and the like ~ This produces a new common sense if you keep on saying it is common sense.

Relationships – Owners, Controllers and Producers


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PLAN

GUIDELINES

BEHAVIOUR

ORGANISATION

Consultation

Participate

Manage

TeamworkConform

Comply

Operations Management

Information Management

Legislative Management

FinancialManagement

PeopleManagement

Risk Management

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Benchmarking - Targets

Supervision

Self-regulationBusiness Capture

Meetings

Corrective ActionSanctions


Roles andResponsibilities

PBOGThe sociology of organisational life

CONTROLSTANDARD MODEL

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PLAN'Change Agents'

GUIDELINESHidden

Persuaders

BEHAVIOURSocial Action

ORGANISATIONPatterns of Ownership

Consultation

Participate

Manage

TeamworkConform

Comply




FinancialManagement

PeopleManagement

Risk Management

Key Performance Indicators - Benchmarking

Supervision


Meetings





CONTROL

What' going on from a people perspective?

What's going on symbolically?

Exposing the PLAN

What's going on politically?

What's going on structurally?

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PLANSocial

Physiology

GUIDELINESBehaviouralEconomics

BEHAVIOURPoliticalScience

ORGANISATIONPolitical History

Consultation

Participate

Manage

TeamworkConform

Comply




FinancialManagement

PeopleManagement

Risk Management

Key Performance Indicators - Benchmarking

Supervision


Meetings





CONTROLExposing the PLAN

PBOG – Organisational Life

Patterns of BEHAVIOUR

RationalORGANISATION

Legal or OtherGUIDELINES

PLAN CONSULTATION

MANAGE

COMPLYCONFORM PARTICIPATE

TEAMWORK

ASPECTS

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PLAN MEETINGS

KPI's - TARGETS

ROLES&

RESPONSIBILITIES SANCTIONS SUPERVISIONSELF-REGULATION

SOCIAL CONTROLS






PLANManagement ofINFORMATION

Management ofOPERATIONS

Management ofPEOPLE

Management ofFINANCE

Management of LEGISLATION

Management ofRISKS MANAGEMENT

PRACTICES






PLAN Implementation of Plan

Direct, Inform, Instruct and Train all participants in the organisation

Interpretation of theGuidelines

Rules – Activity TheoryLAW

Definition of the situation






PLAN Evaluate or review Plan

Follow the legal or other Guidelines(Rules - Law)

Situation

Cooperate with others in relation to the situationRational Organisation

This is how it's done around here






PLAN

By definition Rational OrganisationsCreate Competition between participants

We want you to do this with these to produce that 'safely'

Coordination of effort(division of effort)

Participants of the organisationwill Focus on the plan and give feedback about the plan






PLAN

Enforce or encourage participants toFollow the Guidelines

(Rules - Law)

An increased level of Competence comes through practice,skills, knowledge and experience, time served, and certification

Internalised plans are conditioned by the legal or other Guidelines (Rules, Regulation - Law)

This is how it should be done



NOW is the TIME to STOP THINKING about the MARKET and START THINKING ABOUT THE STATE!!!


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PLANGovernance

GUIDELINESLegislative

Powers

BEHAVIOURPolitical Activism

ORGANISATIONThe

STATE

Consultation

Participate

Manage

TeamworkConform

Comply




FinancialManagement

PeopleManagement

Risk Management

Key Performance Indicators - Targets International Standards for Quality, Environment & Social Responsibility

Supervision

Regulation of theMarketsFirms Organisations

Meetings




of theSTATE


CONTROL

Political & MoralAuthority

In Place of Austerity

DemocraticProcess

Human Development

Collectivity

Social Interventionist State – Working Together

The kaleidoscope turns as another part of the mosaic of life shift its position creating new patterns

Reproduction & Transformation

*Rational Organisation on an individual level 'I want me to do this with these to produce that' or at a collective level 'We want you to do this with these to produce that'.

Quote “We are no longer the post-ideological generation; we are now a generation at the heart of the resistance” 30/11/2010

PBOG: PLAN 'Activity Theory' Brain directs instructs informs trains within *Rational Organisation gives focus & feedback to your Plan (Brain)



➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture ~ Now that was a lot of technical stuff

My global perspective

Clive Burgess ©2012 Thank You for your time & Energy – hope you enjoy my stuff

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