The Labour of the Negative

By Roger Scuton.

The case of the children removed from foster parents by Rotherham Social Services, on the grounds that the parents are supporters of UKIP, is now notorious. I doubt that any reader of this blog will be surprised by the facts of the case, or by the conduct of the social workers involved. But there are lessons to be drawn by conservatives that are not publicly referred to, even though publicly felt. The head of Children’s Services at Rotherham, Joyce Thacker, made it quite clear that she was acting on her own principles as well as the advice of colleagues, in making all of the following judgements: UKIP is a racist party because it is opposed to multiculturalism and urges a strict policy on immigration; councils looking for foster parents for the children that are dumped on them (especially when dumped by foreigners) should look for an appropriate ‘cultural match’, which means choosing foster parents who do not belong to the majority culture; a party like UKIP, which emphasizes national independence as its central idea, is some kind of threat to the new order of things, in which all people are to be treated equally, without preference for the inherited national life-style.

Those judgements are not the arbitrary prejudices of a particular bigot. They are the norms inculcated over decades by academic sociology, by the training in social work, by the quangocracy that has been fed from our social problems, and by the Labour Party and its ideologists. Their meaning is not to be found in such positive actions as seem to flow from them – for as we know, little flows from them of a positive kind at all, as the Rotherham case amply illustrates. Here were abandoned children being offered not just a home but a way into the surrounding society, a way of being normal and protected members of a successful historical community, the very community that granted protection in our formative years to you and me. It is precisely that positive result that horrified the social workers, and caused them to fall back on their fundamental axioms, which are not positive but negative.

This is how we should understand the leftist orthodoxies that dominate social thinking and social policy: they stem from what Engels praised as ‘the labour of the negative’ – the moment in the dialectical process in which all that is cherished is destroyed. We should understand the term ‘labour’ as it occurs in New Labour, in the terms expressed by Engels. We have seen a systematic turning against all that can be identified as ‘ours’ – our country, our values, our history, our community, our sense of identity, our system of laws, sovereignty and government. How we explain this is a matter for deep psychology – though I cannot think that Nietzsche and Scheler are too wide of the mark in identifying resentment as a major factor. However we explain the matter, the labour of the negative has been the principal occupation of sociology and social work in our time. They have devoted themselves to the destruction of an inherited community and of the loyalties that enable that community to reproduce itself. The fact that nothing will come in the place of that community besides anarchy and fragmentation is of no concern to those who have built their lives on the ethic of negation. The tragedy is that it has been left to UKIP to articulate the needed ‘Conservatism of the Positive’ with which to rectify the balance.

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[Country Mouse]

I don't know where to start....Can only say well done Roger Scruton. This should be read everywhere.

[Davidhussell]

Excellent article, Roger. It is short, hits the key points and is in clear English. Thank you and congratulations. The centre, the right and all those who love Britain and freedom really do need to come together to push back against this hideous destruction of our culture and ultimately, if it continues, our nation. It is precisely because the Conservative Party, under Cameron, has been conquered by this destructive, ultimately Marxist derived thinking that I, as a life long committed patriot, and also Christian, migrated to Ukip. The centre and the right is in desperate need of a leader who can unite the vast numbers of fair minded, clear thinking people out there who are totally frustrated with the surrender of our values and way of life to these destructive forces.

[Faustiesblog]

Very well said.

For decades, we've been fed the line that "our civil serivice is the envy of the world" due to its "impartiality" and semi-permanence.

Now, at last, the veil is being slowly peeled away to reveal:

* a civil service packed with placemen from leftist organisations, from global organisations, from fake 'charities' and from global corporations.

* a quangocracy comprised of people drawn from the above pool, with a heavier emphasis on big business.

Need I mention Common Purpose - of which Thacker is a member?

These are insidious, creeping, cancers which hollow out our democracy from the inside.

Of course, the vast majority of those who work in the civil service and QUANGOs are probably decent, ordinary people.

But those at the top - the rent-seekers, the back-scratchers, the greasers, the parasites need to be rooted out and turfed out, without golden good-byes, or a back-door route back into the system.

First call should be having civil servants declare any interests they may have to identify conflicts of interest. E.g., shares, outside pensions, clubs and associations, etc.

Civil Servants should be agenda- and dogma-free.

[Victor Southern]

"They have devoted themselves to the destruction of an inherited community and of the loyalties that enable that community to reproduce itself. The fact that nothing will come in the place of that community besides anarchy and fragmentation is of no concern to those who have built their lives on the ethic of negation".

Bravo! How well put.

[Sandy Jamison]

Presumably Ms Thacker in the Rotherham Returning Officer's room ensuring there are 4,648 people in Roherham who will not be allowed to Foster or adopt

[Chris]

Think Common Purpose.

[Robert (DMML)]

An excellent comment which runs in tandem with this article by Melamie Phillips:
"Dogma
In the early Nineties, I unearthed what, it is no exaggeration to say, was a climate of totalitarianism in social-work training.
Anti-racist zealots had captured the social workers’ training body, and built into the social-work diploma the explicit assumption that society was fundamentally racist and oppressive.
What followed was an utterly chilling degree of intimidation and thought control. Blameless social work students were forced in tears to ‘confess’ to their own racism; some failed to qualify unless they identified racist attitudes even where none existed.
These and other politically correct dogma, and the requirement to enforce them, remain stamped into social-work culture like the name of Blackpool in a stick of rock".

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2238374/Ukip-row-Its-foster-family-bigots--multicultural-thought-police.html#ixzz2DjNJKO9P
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However, Cameron's version of Conservatism has facilitated and continued the march of the Left through our institutions.

[RutlandReliable]

Do Rotherham social services, the civil service and the BBC have shared values based on their staff selection policies ?

[Gerry Dorrian]

The thing about equality is that it's a transient state: a power-centre will emerge and will embark on the Nietszchean task of accumulating more power. But one might say that this is one of the dynamics of dialectic - probably in classical Hegelian sense rather than Marxist - that an antithetical culture emerges, but I'm sure Ms Thacker and co have their plans for what the synthesis will look like. I think it's a shame UKIP never won the election to show them that ordinary peoples' lives are not their ideological playground.

[Juan Sheet]

The question not yet asked, is how did it come to this?

How did this ideology come to dominate all these organisations, rather than say a libertarian ideology?

It is too easy to merely say something like "it came from academia" without explaining why academia itself is largely of a left wing or Marxist bent. When you look below the bonnet, it is not obvious to me why people in academia are drawn to Marxism, other than the possibility that it is something inherent in the structure of academia itself.

[Fernando_Hobbs]

Paradoxically, we could almost be grateful to Joyce Thacker for illustrating, in so clear and vivid a fashion, the appalling results which can follow from an obsession with political correctness. Her aim should be to match children who need love and stability with families that can provide that. Her attitude is the mirror image of those that don’t want gays to foster. Imaging the outcry if she had taken them away because the foster parents supported Stonewall.

[David Barlow]

When I worked as a guardian ad litem on behalf of children I met many such Thackers. I had many toe and hair curling experiences. When Thackers' wild theories were exposed and vilified in the courts what happened to them? Why, instead of being sacked they were moved on and promoted. Surprise, surprise!

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