Economic Class (1) - The Business Class - Again

There’s lots to talk about, but I have to keep on about the business class. Because while it’s easy to show that they are the most powerful group in society, most of what I read is just about political leaders. And much of that just speculation about their career prospects, as if we are their Mums. Or I hear about whichever powerless out-group some people are blaming for themselves not getting what they feel they are entitled to. But never about the business class.

Some give the business class a pass altogether by talking of disembodied ‘money’. Progressives try to hold just ‘the wealthy’, ‘capitalists’, ‘the billionaires’, ’the multi-nationals’, ‘the corporations’ responsible. But these are just vague, difficult-to-pin-down sub-sets of the business class. They leave us with nobody to properly talk about and regulate.

The business class as a whole is the problem so we need to name and blame them all, as a class. Because it is them who run the economy, from the smallest upwards. And, from the smallest upwards, they are the base of the conservative political movement that, using the small-business myth of individual enterprise, legitimise the power of big business.

Once we kit ourselves up to talk about them, normally and often, as a class, then we can talk about the sub-sets, and variations like ‘they aren’t all bad’. But only after identifying and while talking of them as a whole class.

But it doesn’t come easy to use the undoubtedly accurate term ‘business class’ in everyday speech. It helps a bit if you look round your house at products and services and say - the business class provide that. At the adverts on TV. At the company names on lorries out on the road. At all the workplaces. At construction sites.

But still not all that easy to use in everyday conversation. So let’s try to get our brains to accept it with repetition, provoke some neuro-plasticity in there - the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class... the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class... the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class... the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class... the business class, the business class… the business class, the business class…

And look at the full work, pages 117 to 131, where I tackle the definition of the business class https://www.uspol.org/_files/ugd/e8d212_041244e0599040679ea9db2941c32416.pdf

In the next blog, Economic Class (2), there’ll be something new about the other main economic class, the non-business majority class, currently poorly named as the working class, workers or the working classes.