(11-25-2020, 09:59 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(11-25-2020, 06:56 PM)Einzige Wrote: There is no movement against "the elite" in the United States, if by "elite" we actually mean the bourgeoisie with a definite relationship to the instruments of production as a totality and not some nebulous abstract like "the greedy" or "the Jews" or "the Illuminati".
Sorry, I'm talking about the real world. I could try to shift into your theoretical doublespeak, but it doen't seem worth the bother just now.
Right. The real world, where social classes have definite, objective existences, defined not by mere monetary wealth (as in "the 1%" of vulgar left-populists coming out of Occupy) but by the social and juridical relationship to the means of production from which that wealth arises.
Democratic Party left-liberalism is the favored orientation of a sector of the bourgeoisie in the United States, favoring as it does fiscally "loose" policies that support banks and subsidies to the tech and "green" energy sectors, as well as those factions of academia responsible for administering the capitalist State.
