07-01-2016, 01:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-01-2016, 02:00 PM by Eric the Green.)
(06-28-2016, 03:11 PM)Dan 82 Wrote: Michael Albert calls corporate and government bureaucrats the coordinator class. In practice Marxism and many other left wing movements end up empowering the coordinator/bureaucratic class as much if not more than the working class. The modern left seems to be dominated by the bureaucratic, intellectual and creative classes and not the working class.
I think the petite bourgeoisie, particularly single person firms is still an important element in part because it is what the working class aspires to be and it is a strong influence on the working class due to mutual affinity, the petite bourgeoisie or less likely to look down on the working class than other upper classes.
I agree, but it also appears that the working class is largely becoming obsolete. Automation is replacing the working class with robots. Those who have jobs, increasingly must be smart, or else good at working with people one on one. The rest are out of luck without social services, guaranteed income, welfare, etc. Or, a better education available and capable of bringing out the intelligence and creativity of virtually everyone. Even then, there's not enough jobs even for creative people. So automation implies the end of Reaganomics in all its aspects.