In the past we’ve re-blogged posts from Architects for Social Housing. We had some admiration for Simon Elmer’s work – when they stuck to their field. Latterly they’ve become a disciple of the late Enoch Powell.
Elmer’s response to my sincere critique of this article: https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2024/10/02/the-great-replacement-immigration-to-the-uk-part-one/ which I concluded by taking issue with their misuse of the word “woke” was so shrill and petulant it could not be left unanswered.
For a couple of days we have been trying to reply but it seems we’ve been blocked – spineless, Simon. If they delete it all we’ve got it saved. Predictably, that is what happened, as you can see the links no longer work, so:
https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2024/10/02/the-great-replacement-immigration-to-the-uk-part-one/#comment-26423
https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2024/10/02/the-great-replacement-immigration-to-the-uk-part-one/#comment-26424
Our initial comment
October 23, 2024 at 12:58 am.
You’ve done some good work in the past, Simon but this pisses all over it. For all the statistics and graphs it is fatally flawed. You insist on presenting ‘race’ as an objective category – an illusion rejected by UNESCO in 1950 and by Darwin 75 years earlier. As in “mixed race” and “white working class”. The Working Class has never been white!
The wealth of these beleaguered Western powers was built on the enclosure of indigenous lands, the pillage of Asia and the Americas, and the trade in Africans. The death throes of the Roman empire lasted five hundred years and the fallout from European Imperialism has barely started – tough shit.
Black people didn’t invent ‘race’ any more than poor people invented money or workers invented borders – if you are a Marxist you should recognise these apparitions as components of the Great Expropriation. There is no white Working Class because there is no white race. It was invented to retrospectively justify the wars of empire and stave off the movement for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
Where in your lengthy tome do you analyse the cultivation of ‘political Islam’ by the West as a foil to agressively secular post-Stalinist independence movents during the cold war? When the bolshevik experiment collapsed they switched to ‘clash of civilisations’ and it bit them in the arse.
You don’t need freakish conspiracy theories to explain the pharonic wealth inequality resulting from the switch to fictitous capital (volume 3 if memory serves), driven by the arms industry, or the use of technology for malign purposes. It turns out everyone who believes we need bosses would like to be one.
Where is your analysis of artificial scarcity, or the manufactured crisis of ‘illegal’ migration? You destroy the infrastructure of five countries, then leave the inhabitants to sit in the rubble or perish in the sea. You stick the refugees, with no support, in hotels next to Working Class estates devastated by decades of austerity, still banging on about artificial scarcity, and say nothing to the locals. When they build student accomodation in a new area they try harder than that.
This fear of the ‘other’ is stoked to soften us up for some serious crimes against humanity, as a quarter of our land mass is shortly to become uninhabitable.
So what is your agenda? Why do all that research and ignore the bleeding obvious? There is some conceit in writing an article so long-winded you can be pretty confident no-one will ever study it in detail. And don’t you dare use “woke” ironically. If you don’t know what it means, fucking look it up.
Mal C.
Simon Elmer says:
October 23, 2024 at 8:22 am
I don’t have to look up what woke means: you have provided a textbook example of it. I use the categories of Black, Asian, White British, etc, as they are used by the Office for National Statistics and other organisations recording data on the demographic composition of the UK, just as I use the word Nigerian to refer to people from Nigeria, English to decribe people from England, British to describe people with British citizenship, Londoners for people who live in London. I, for example, am an Englishman currently living in China, and if my son were born here and lived all his life here, he would still be an Englishman in China. There is no insult in using words to describe differences between peoples and places. All the world understands this. All the world except those indoctrinated into the unthinking of woke.
I’m not in the least surprised that UNESCO, an agency of the United Nations, an organisation founded to destroy the sovereignty of the nation state, rejected the concept of race; but I am surprised that a professed Marxist should quote it as an authority on anything. When Che Guevara concluded his address to the UN in 1964 with the words ‘Patria o muerte!’, he understood, as you and your multicultural friends do not, that a working class without a homeland is dead.
I use Islam to refer to the religion, but distinguish between its foundational texts, the institutions that decide what those texts mean, the cultural forms they take in the UK, and the behaviours and attitudes of Muslims they sanctify. It is the latter with which I am primarily concerned. I make occassional reference to the effects of Western wars in the Middle East on the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the UK, but finding excuses for replacement immigration or Muslim rape gangs or Yemeni machete gangs isn’t my primary concern. I specifically cite the kinds of excuses made by different responses to replacement migration, which includes your own, in Part Three of my study, and point out why these do nothing to ameliorate or excuse the overwhelmingly negative effects of replacement immigration in the UK, socially and economically, which I have also shown in Parts 2, 3 and 4 is overwhelmingly born by the White working class. The sum total of your argument is that, because the ruling class of Western powers have invaded and exploited Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the White working class of Britain should be replaced by immigrants from these continents. This alone betrays the contempt in which you hold the class you claim to champion.
But none of this means anything to you. There are no races, no nations, no countries, no borders, just the free flow of capital and people under the neoliberal ideology of multiculturalism. According to the middle-class ideologues you follow, class itself is a fiction of White supremacism. So I presume, to follow through with your woke ideology, there are no men and women either, just games of trans identity. And, to complete the triology of woke ideology, your absurd reference to ‘a quarter of the world’s landmass becoming inhabitable’ shows you also believe we’re all about to die from global boiling, which means the 1-million-plus immigrants coming to the UK every year aren’t just refugees from war but climate refugees too. Al Gore would be proud of you. In short, you are indoctrinated into the apocalyptic ideologies I have identified in Part Four as responsible for the decline in the birth rate of the White British (which, of course, also don’t exist).
If I had wanted to write about the various topics you have accused me of not writing about I would have done so, and indeed I have done so in other articles, for example about Gaza, the Ukraine, etc. But what these articles are about is the policy, impact, response and solutions to replacement immigration in the UK, for which I have supplied 37,000 words of evidence, data, analysis and discussion, all of which you have ignored and dismissed as ‘all the statistics and graphs’. As this demonstrates, you are speaking the discourse of woke, which judges reality on whether it conforms to its authoritarian principles, not whether it actually exists. I address this ‘debunking of reality’ in Part Three of my study, but your comment is a better demonstration than anything I could have supplied.
The ultimate expression of this dismissal of reality is your declaration that White people don’t exist. I understand that this is precisely what woke wants us to believe. It is what you, in your abject self-loathing, appear to believe, if you are not merely virtue signalling to your tribe. But we do exist, and we will do everything we can to stop you, and the globalists you are serving, from erasing us, in language, in thought, in history, in policy, in practice.
You are not a Marxist, which in itself is a middle-class term that cleared the way for the colonisation of the Left by woke. You are the enemy of the working class, White, Black and Asian. Your ‘solidarity’ is with George Soros and the other oligarchs you serve. As such, you are my enemy. Fortunately, despite your own smartphone span of attention, many thousands of people have already read my ‘long-winded’ articles, and many thousands more, I hope, will, even under the threat of arrest by the government whose project you are defending. But thank you for this demonstration of the terror to which the virtues of woke lead, which I will leave here for others to read.
Simon Elmer
Our response – which we were unable to post – 27th October 2024 at 16:20:
So you don’t know what it means then. The phrase is “stay woke” in African American vernacular and is simply a reminder to be aware of the imminence of oppression by the hegemonic group. It first appears in Leadbelly’s (Huddie Ledbetter’s) 1936 recording “the Scottsboro boys” about a group of African American youths framed for a heinous crime and judicially murdered.
It’s what every African American mother says to her teenage son before he leaves the house. “Stay woke. Watch out for the cops, don’t run away, don’t get aggressive, and don’t put your hand in your pocket – because they really do want to shoot you”. I’ve been arrested at gunpoint in my home town and I know that sensation, but being light-skinned has kept me out of jail a few times. White supremacy still reigns in territories that were founded on it.
That’s all it means, nothing to do with tofu or pronouns, and no, you can’t buy a ‘woke burger’. Persisting in repeating it out of context will not cause it to mean anything else, and applying the term to any institution is self-contradictory. Anyone who uses ‘woke’ ironically or for marketing purposes insults the memory of the dead and I swear if you ever do it in my presence we will settle the matter in the car park.
“I, for example, am an Englishman currently living in China, and if my son were born here and lived all his life here, he would still be an Englishman in China.” That is pure bollocks, essentialism bordering on metaphysics. You are a ferocious hypocrite, banging on about migration whilst living overseas. Who are you replacing? Do you perhaps fancy yourself as a latter-day colonist? Bringing civilisation to them, are you?
Race was first postulated by a narrow group of North Western European academics in the seventeenth Century, none of them were Working Class. It was prompted by an existential threat to the old order. The landed gentry bought off a bourgeois revolution by allowing the nascent bourgeoisie to expand into the colonies and codify human chattel slavery in legislation for the first time. We might ask why the Romans never thought of it, or the Arab mathematicians, engineers and scientists who overshadowed Western academia as it dragged itself out of the superstitious swamp of christianity.
The first great replacement would have to be the Americas where 98% of the population perished from European diseases before they ever saw a European. The same happened in the Pacific. In Australia and Canada, a programme to breed out indigenous characteristics was underway in my lifetime, on land stolen from those same people by Europeans. The horrors you associate with migrants were being perpetrated by British troops in Kenya, also in my lifetime. Consider the map of Africa, all straight lines and right angles; it wasn’t the Hutus and Tutsis who drew it like that. I struggle to imagine why the global majority would give two hoots about the survival of your self-styled white race.
The Working Class didn’t invent the nation-state either. Eschewed by, but aggressively defended by Bolsheviks and their apologists. Guevara was a Stalinist. We know that borders serve only the bosses, to maintain differentials in prices and wages, raw materials and manufactured goods. You can’t stop the free flow of capital by tying Workers to the parish of their birth, as under Speenhamland to stop them moving around and looking for a better deal, on the land the bourgeoisie stole from us.
Class is no more or less than a relationship to the means of production, controller or operator. Of course the Working Class has no country, I’ve more in common with a worker in Jakarta or Khartoum than a bourgeois half a mile away, whose interests are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive to mine. Self loathing would get a belly laugh from anyone who’s met me. I have been fighting people like you all my life and I would be mortified if anyone imagined we had anything in common. Your shrill, petulant response to my serious criticism gives you away.
You make a great many unfounded assumptions about me and my presumed ideological affiliations to fit your crank theory. I regard ideology as a coagulation of logical fallacies for which I’ve never had any use. You apply labels and catch phrases that mean nothing to me or anyone I know or, I suspect, anyone outside of your weird internet freakshow.
I certainly never claimed to be a Marxist, to me the only difference between a Communist and a fascist is the badge on his hat, and the inside of a cell looks much the same the world over. Marxist theory accurately describes the mechanics of capitalist accumulation, but his prescriptions were pure crap. Just as Newton’s theories are adequate to build a bridge or fire a projectile, I can do all that without taking account of any of his other views. I blame Lenin. The failure of the statist left to see beyond transaction and coercion not only paved the way for fascism in all its forms but preserved the capitalist power relation long past its expiry date. Look back a century to the Great Unrest and the currents of revolutionary syndicalism and self-organisation developing around the globe that could have easily superseded it.
“According to the middle-class ideologues you follow, class itself is a fiction of White supremacism”. – What bilge is this? I’ve never encountered such an incoherent jumble of words. Source please.
You couldn’t resist introducing gender, another Eurocentric obsession. The separation of production from reproduction was a component of the great expropriation. The introduction of the money economy in response to the crisis in late mediaeval society divided social from domestic labour. The nuclear family, a parody of the bourgeois household is the most efficient mechanism for the labouring class to reproduce and maintain itself at its own expense. It was unknown for most of human history. All your European gender- and hetero-normativity are just props in this fantastic confidence trick.
Nor does it matter whether you and your cult believe in global warming, traditionally inhabited territories are being abandoned all the time, so your borders will fall whatever you do, that’s reality, mush.
Who’s George Soros? Some rich geezer, he wouldn’t be Jewish would he? A member of the global elite, despite the attempts of two authoritarian tendencies to see him off? We’ve been here before, a long time ago. Al Gore? nothing to me. These people are irrelevant; they are of no interest next to eight billion proletarians.
What else? I neither follow nor lead, serve no-one and I only defend those I care about. I’ve never owned a “smart phone”, I read books. For all your pompous, esoteric gobbledegook, your opinions are those of the late Enoch Powell, or Herman Göring. You are no better than the sleazy alcoholics and nonces in ill-fitting suits we used to see shambling into NF meetings in the 70’s. We saw that lot off and we’ll see your gang off too. I guarantee the misguided folk tempted to follow you will never read a fraction of what you’ve written. “Look here’s some clever mushty with graphs to support what […] said.” I have written this for them: don’t be taken in by this charlatan!
You are correct in one respect; you and I are mortal enemies. If you ever return to blighty, do get in touch so we can arrange that car park fixture, “we will do everything we can to stop you.” Have a go you mug.
Mal C.
October 27, 2024
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