Fiction | Mr. Fletcher

The war which caused the British Empire to feel restless was thus ended. Royal household had to bear the consequence of cutting off their ties with their blood-relatives settled in Germany. British Parliament also felt the fragility of the Party-in-Government. War needs charismatic leaders who can lie easily rather than providing factual information. They aren’t born to provide it, otherwise what would be the Journalists doing then.

Asquith’s Liberal Government fell and then a coalition established Lloyd George as the Prime Minister. Credit for winning the war was given to him, there is nothing more satisfying for politicians other than giving him credits, even if it means they did not do the work for which they are credited heavily. Anyways, thus Mr. George won the next elections while the Liberal party lost heavily.

Although the Empire had been on the winning side of the war, it had already lost almost 876,084 young men. Mr. George Fletcher was one of the few unfortunate men who couldn’t serve the Nation and the Emperor due to a medical problem, which was the result of his playful childhood. He had a Shoe workshop near Bond Street. He employed around 225 workers for manufacturing shoes. His Grandfather had title and estates, but all was lost since most of the Family’s Gentlemen had a gambling addiction.

Still, he had blood connections in the House of Commons and Lords as well. Fletcher had always been a strong supporter of Anti-socialism since his noble upbringing. Every time the Parliament passed subsidiaries for the poor, he would be the first one to oppose them. His position seemed to be the middle of the Bourgeoisie and Petty Bourgeoisie, while his economic numbers always proved his pettiness but he behaved like a fully grown Bourgeoisie always ready to crush the working class.

War had its own workings, and even blood relations sometimes don’t work. He thus had to close his workshop and move to be a laborer himself. As Lenin had said, “first the external conditions change, first the material side changes, and then consciousness, the ideal side, changes accordingly.” — The same occurred with Fletcher. He first thought to start his workshop after saving his wages, but then, as usual, the wages are never satisfactory to sustain proper living conditions.

Few years gone, he started meeting his fellow colleagues in union meetings, and then as Marx says, “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness”, when his material conditions changed from the owner to worker, so did his thoughts and his outlook towards the world changed.

This scene is referred from an example written in Stalin’s Anarchism vs Socialism