The "middle class" is a quite successful attempt by bourgeois propaganda to create a new socioeconomic analysis that is not rooted in the actual objective role we have in our economy, as in workers who produce vs capitalists who own the means of production, but in a subjective metamodernist perspective where everyone is the same in the economic system and seperated simply by the money they make. People who are quite rich by owning land can still be considered middle class, while someone who works a white collar job like software engineering is also considered middle class despite the huge difference in systemic role. The fact that the "middle class" landowner is rich through exploitation is neatly tucked away in a layer of capitalist utopia where everyone can also become a capitalist if they simply try very hard, and no harm will be done by you doing that.
One goal of this is to hide away and try to make Marxism forgotten and left in the past, because it is the only true socioeconomic analysis that truly explains our reality and highlights the clear class distinctions that are inherent to capitalism which it can't exist without. Only Marxism really shows the contradictions in the root of capitalism, the constant clash between the proletariat which produces everything and keeps getting more and more able to do so collectively with a common goal, and the bourgeoisie who privately own the means of production and capital in general and force the proletariat to work for them by giving them a small part of the value they create. The latter keeps becoming a smaller and smaller class that is constantly getting more disconnected with the actual production process, at the same time that the former is becoming more collective than ever and has the potential to break away and self organize to produce with the goal of giving straight to the people according to their needs instead of the capitalist's antagonistic goals.
Another goal is to perpetuate the delusion that lower working class people who don't belong to the beloved middle class, can grit their teeth and work hard enough to get there, while the rest can enjoy their position within it and rightfully ignore the suffering of the lower class since they worked for and therefore deserve their privileges.
maybe an inverse/bloomer edition of the tanks wouldn't be a bad idea for when we see people being cool I'm unexpected places
that would be really cool, we could use a lot of hopium when the world keeps looking darker every day, and seeing normies come to the realization that capitalism needs to end is something that keeps me sane
The only "good guys" were the ones staying away from a filthy imperialist war, which was the Russian people turning against their own warmongering capitalist masters
Syria (maybe?), Russia (maybe?), and Iran (maybe?)
We might critically support these states as anti-imperialist forces, but that does not mean that we support the way they govern their own people and the class they represent. At best they would be just as democratic as the western "democracies", a bourgeois democracy where the capitalists have the freedom to pursue the maximization of profits with as little resistance possible while using the state forces against the oppressed proletariat.
True 100% democracy can't exist while classes also exist. Until they fade away into history the best implementation of democracy will be the dictatorship of the proletariat, a democracy by the working class for the working class. Capitalists have no place in it, unless they willfully sacrifice their privileges and join the working class without plotting to subvert this new reality. That's what made the Soviet Union a democracy, everyone would participate through their unions and have equal rights to be elected to them and upwards. A former capitalist's opinion on their factory being taken away on the other hand, would be instantly discarded.
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