Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England and How to Get It Back (Libertarian Analysis Book 1)

I got this yesterday for £2.80 and read it in about 2 hours. I already hold most of the authors views through reading American libertarian literature by people like Laurence Vance, Ron Paul and Conservative Pat Buchanan, as well as Peter Hitchens and various other stuff.I am a Conservative, Christian, Libertarian and believe in a government with the least power and individuals with the maximum freedom. I don't believe in foreign wars, only defense and I believe there should be no laws for or against any kind of discrimination, free speech, thought, word or deed; on any issue that doesn't break what should be a small, simple, basic, understandable, tough: criminal law.The author presents the current government (labour or conservative) as the agresive propagator of a false ideology, which dominates through power (state violence) education, media and all the huge, powerful arms of the state.His revolutionary solution, if a truly conservative government got into power (the conservative party he rightly points out, is just a furtherance of the neo Marxist revolution, under a slightly different guise, but not truly conservative or freedom loving) it would sack about a third of the arms of the state, end the BBC and de-nationalize education, but keep the welfare state and de-corporatize business; among other things. The crown would be an open issue depending upon its use and republicanism would be a viable option.Where I would disagree with the author would be on his commitment to "secularism". I think he could be a bit naïve about this and the relationship between Christianity (especially evangelical Protestantism) and individual value, freedom and rights; and the reverse the effect of secular humanist, atheist, agnostic, ideology and the erosion of these things in society, politics and culture.I still think it is a small book well worth reading by any freedom lovers and should open doors to new ideas and areas of investigation.God blesse,Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.Simon Hailes.

This book is about the England I was born into (in 1946) and how it has changed. It was then a free country and we could say what we liked. People would say all the time that "Well, it's a free country" and it was. Now it isn't and we're sliding into a police state. We're governed by an arrogant politically correct ruling class which propagates its religion of multi-culturalism. The author says, rightly, that we must fight back and use the Internet to spread our ideas. We're in for a long haul but we will win because we have the truth on our side.

I read this book during the coronapanic debacle of 2020, at a time when England is evidently no longer a free country, when race-baiting communist protestors have recently been allowed to deface the statue of Churchill in Parliament Square, and when the BBC continues to pump out relentless anti-Western propaganda. Sean Gabb's book, written over a decade ago, is not only engagingly written but remarkably prescient. He describes a country sliding into totalitarianism, led by a Marxist ruling class - including Quisling Conservatives as well as the Labour Party - that has abandoned the native population of England, not to mention all commonsense and decency. Those of us who genuinely love freedom are now engaged in a struggle to restore freedom to the UK, and Gabb knew it long before most. His book offers many fascinating insights, always clearly expressed, and numerous proposals for how real conservatives can help bring back sanity to these shores.

Libertarian patriotism. It includes a fair summary of how the state doctrine of "equality and diversity" grew Gramsci-style from small neo-Marxist beginnings.

This is a short work, of 106 pages, excluding the covers, and, of those, original content is to be found on pages 5 to 89. The other pages are taken up with a table of contents, an index and a couple of articles recycled from Gabb's other writings. Those who read only the back cover and the first dozen pages might be inclined to put the work aside as yet another fringe pamphlet of the "why oh why?" variety, listing the grumbles about modern Britain which could be found any day in conservative newspaper blogs. Tony Blair, Polly Toynbee, politically correct Chief Constables, the BBC: all the familiar bogeymen (should that be bogeypersons) are taken out to be shuddered over. Persevere, this reviewer urges potential readers. Make it to chapter five, page 53, and experience the sudden change of gear under the heading of "What is to be done?" Was Gabb alluding to Lenin's work of the same name? He doesn't let on. The effect, however, is to stiffen the sinews of his readers, for here is a revolutionary programme. For the rest of the book, which after all is not far away, he offers a tantalising glimpse of what a sovereign parliament of England might yet achieve. Gabb admits in the end the unlikelihood of his vision ever coming to pass, and is reduced to asking for money. The effect is rather like listening to a musical tone poem. There is a short message, uplifting and easily digested, and when the last cadences have died away, one is left with a sense of loss. On that basis, buy the book. Anyone prepared to pay ten pounds or more for a CD, offering, say, another interpretation of the Second Horn Concerto of Richard Strauss, can afford the £9.99 for Gabb's work. Here is a final, one hopes, constructive criticism: the index as it stands is almost useless. It would be better to have two indexes, one for subjects, the other for names. Reasonably-priced concordancing software can now be purchased to help with this. Full marks to Gabb for giving the reader running footnotes, but a separate bibliography at the end would have helped too.

This is available as a free pdf download. I spent an hour reading the first half of the pdf and have decided I MUST buy the book, if only to pass on to friends when I have finished. Sean Gabb has done the research to justify all I've been thinking since I left school in '86!

Sean Gabb doesn't use the word Cultural Marxism when he details what the ruling class is currently doing to the public, but that's what he's describing. This slim volume gives an excellent picture of a very dark present; one that most people don't realize is happening. I recommend this book to anyone who wonders if all the little indignities the government is constantly cooking up for us are linked together in some way. Gabb has a solution for big government that will bring a smile to your face; cut it in half. If you're fed up with Obama, and big government, this is the book for you.