The “eat the rich” aka hyperfixation on billionaires narrative as seen in the post. Turns the problem into some moral “some people accumulated too much” rather than being about social relations which doesn’t threaten anything, it automatically implies that workers + small and medium capital are somehow on the same side, and if the narrative had its way and billionaires started to get taxed (before adopting tax avoidance methods like family owned NGO’s) or somehow got removed in other ways, the newly freed minuscule market space would only benefit the smaller capital, as now they can temporarily take over before the capital’s tendency to centralize kicks in once more. Therefore, it’s petty bourgeois at best.
Unless this has some new meaning due to Epstein or something, in which case yeah mb, I don’t really keep up with The Discourse™ for my own sanity
Tbc, I was just making a joke along the same lines as gen x being left out of the discourse between millennials and boomers
But by representation in memes, I meant being directly called out in memes. I agree that the focus on “eat the rich” over “seize the means of production” can be bad, and overlooking the petty bourgeois can have problematic implications
It was a bit of a tongue in cheek thing as well though bc I belong to the petty bourgeois (although I don’t own capital or employ others)
I think it is well understood that the petite bourgeoisie are on the side of capital, not because they are capitalists, but because they are confused with respect to their own class identity. Incidentally, this is why we say eat the rich and exterminate billionaires: to avoid further confusion.
I’m so sick of the lack of petit bourgeois representation in memes 😔
The dogshit billionaire narrative is very much petty bourgeois, they got plenty of representation already
What?
The “eat the rich” aka hyperfixation on billionaires narrative as seen in the post. Turns the problem into some moral “some people accumulated too much” rather than being about social relations which doesn’t threaten anything, it automatically implies that workers + small and medium capital are somehow on the same side, and if the narrative had its way and billionaires started to get taxed (before adopting tax avoidance methods like family owned NGO’s) or somehow got removed in other ways, the newly freed minuscule market space would only benefit the smaller capital, as now they can temporarily take over before the capital’s tendency to centralize kicks in once more. Therefore, it’s petty bourgeois at best.
Unless this has some new meaning due to Epstein or something, in which case yeah mb, I don’t really keep up with The Discourse™ for my own sanity
Ah okay, I understand- we agree on this
Tbc, I was just making a joke along the same lines as gen x being left out of the discourse between millennials and boomers
But by representation in memes, I meant being directly called out in memes. I agree that the focus on “eat the rich” over “seize the means of production” can be bad, and overlooking the petty bourgeois can have problematic implications
It was a bit of a tongue in cheek thing as well though bc I belong to the petty bourgeois (although I don’t own capital or employ others)
I promise you, if billionaires vanished mysteriously, the world QoL would shoot up MASSIVELY.
I think it is well understood that the petite bourgeoisie are on the side of capital, not because they are capitalists, but because they are confused with respect to their own class identity. Incidentally, this is why we say eat the rich and exterminate billionaires: to avoid further confusion.