Under AOC/Bernie-style capitalism, the American
proletariat would subsidize the college careers of the children of the American
petit-bourgeois while the
haute-bourgeois gets to shift the burden of paying for insurance onto the State. Everyone... wins?
You don't get it SNJC, Progressivism in America is not Communism,
It certainly isn't. Case in point:
They'd be richer from all the money saved just letting the government do what it was tasked with doing.
Marx knows all about this.
A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society. To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind. This form of socialism has, moreover, been worked out into complete systems.
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A second, and more practical, but less systematic, form of this Socialism sought to depreciate every revolutionary movement in the eyes of the working class by showing that no mere political reform, but only a change in the material conditions of existence, in economical relations, could be of any advantage to them. By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be affected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government.
Imagine wanting to sell social reform
for no other reason than to sell social reform, heedless of the actual end aimed at by it.
